Tuder — modern Todi in Umbria — was one of a cluster of allied Italian communities that struck autonomous bronze coinage during the Second Punic War period, likely as Rome's monetary system struggled to keep pace with wartime demand. The "light type" designation reflects a deliberate reduction from earlier Triens standards, part of a broader weight deflation that affected allied issues across central Italy during the late third century BC. Surviving specimens attributable to Tuder are genuinely scarce; the city's output was modest, and the reference corpus remains thin enough that die studies have not been systematically completed.
Tuder — modern Todi in Umbria — was one of a cluster of allied Italian communities that struck autonomous bronze coinage during the Second Punic War period, likely as Rome's monetary system struggled to keep pace with wartime demand. The "light type" designation reflects a deliberate reduction from earlier Triens standards, part of a broader weight deflation that affected allied issues across central Italy during the late third century BC. Surviving specimens attributable to Tuder are genuinely scarce; the city's output was modest, and the reference corpus remains thin enough that die studies have not been systematically completed.