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1 Triunx
| Issuer | Larinum |
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| Year | 210 BC - 175 BC |
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| Reference(s) | HN Italy#627, Campana#6, BMC Gr/It#71, SNG Morcom#66 |
| Obverse description | Laureate head of Hercules facing right, wearing the Nemean lion's skin knotted at the throat, rendered in bold relief in the archaic Italic style. The facial features are strongly modelled with a prominent brow, thick beard, and flowing hair visible beneath the lion's scalp. The field is plain with no legend or additional devices. |
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| Reverse description | A centaur galloping vigorously to the right, depicted with forelegs raised and tail extended, conveying dynamic movement characteristic of southern Italian bronze coinage. The legend LADINOD appears in the field above or around the centaur, representing the Oscan form of the city name Larinum. Three pellets arranged in a row below the centaur serve as value marks denoting the triunx denomination of three unciae. |
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Larinum, a Frentani city on the Adriatic slope of the Apennines, struck its own bronze coinage during a window when Rome was consolidating control over central Italy following the Social War's precursors — a region caught between Samnite cultural allegiance and Roman political reality. The triunx, valued at three unciae, is among the least common denominations in the Larinum series, which itself was never a high-volume output.
The HN Italy 627 attribution places this firmly within a municipally-issued sequence that ceased entirely once Rome absorbed local minting authority. Campana's corpus records very few die combinations for this type.