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1 Uncia Wheel / Wheel, four curved spokes
| Issuer | Uncertain Etruscan mint |
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| Year | 240 BC - 225 BC |
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| Currency | As (circa 301-201 BC) |
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| Obverse description | A four-spoked wheel with distinctly curved, sickle-shaped spokes radiating from a raised central hub, occupying the full field of the flan. The spokes curve in a consistent rotational direction, creating a dynamic, pinwheel-like composition. The design is executed in low relief typical of Etruscan cast bronze coinage, with no legend or surrounding border. The irregular flan edges are characteristic of the casting technique employed at uncertain Etruscan mints of the late 3rd century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (240 BC - 225 BC) |
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These cast bronze pieces belong to a poorly understood series produced somewhere in Etruria during the mid-third century BC, a period when Roman military pressure was reshaping the region's political and economic arrangements. The issuing authority remains unidentified — "uncertain Etruscan mint" is the honest answer, not a placeholder for eventual attribution. Scholars have debated whether the wheel motif carried functional symbolism tied to wagon manufacture or trade guilds, but no consensus has held.
Casting rather than striking was still the norm in this region at this date, which affects surface texture and centering in ways that have no parallel in contemporary Roman struck coinage.