Etruria Original?

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Hello everyone!

Could someone please tell me if this coin is original or copy?
If original, what type at Numista? This one?
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces178941.html

Weight: 12.38 g
Diameter: 25 mm




Thank you!
Bump.
This one is interesting...

Looking solely at the design, it would be this type:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces57925.html

My issue is with the diameter/weight. Your example is perfectly acceptable for a cast Uncia, but for a struck Uncia (like the above link), the dimensions are a little big. I checked ICC, and for this exact type, they list a range of 4.04-9.74 grams; however, their ranges are only based on examples they have seen. For another type of struck Uncia, they list a weight as high as 11.00 grams, which is closer.

So... I imagine this is probably just an abnormally large example. Another possibility is that this is an unrecorded cast type, although the environmental damage makes it difficult to tell whether this is struck or cast.

As for this being an original or a copy... I am not sure how someone could fake this kind of condition. Even if this example is bigger than to be expected, everything else seems alright to me.
Thank you again, Sulfur, for your input! I really appreciate it.

The size and weight also throw me off, that is why I started to have doubts, but the appearance seems fine to me. And since there are not that many similar specimens I was able to find online, maybe indeed it is just on the maximum side of the weight spectrum.

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