Watch List notes:

Central Italy, uncertain mint Æ ('Ramo Secco'?) Currency Bar Fragment. Circa 700-300 BC. Blank; stamp or brand (helmet?) / same as obverse. Cf. ICC 3. 150g, 45mm x 47mm. From the Andrew McCabe Collection; Privately purchased from Spink, 1992. Andrew McCabe notes that this example exhibits the wide-edged casting sprues associated with the examples found in the Grammichele hoard: "In form and in its stamp this bar bears a remarkable similarity to those found in the Grammichele (Catania) hoard unearthed in 1900, ref. P.Orsi, Bulletino di Paletnologia Italiana, serie III, tomo IV, 1900 p.277. Indeed it might have come from that hoard. Orsi dates this form of bar to before Ramo Secco, likely about 600BC, as Ramo Secco are known in archaeological contexts from 550BC. Orsi notes the typical full and wide edge flashes from the edges of moulds that were technically eliminated in later bars, and cites a stamp of sticks and a helmet that is similar to this piece".