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Æ20
| Issuer | Larinum |
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| Year | 250 BC - 225 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Minerva facing right, wearing a Corinthian helmet with raised cheek-guards. The portrait is rendered in a bold, somewhat archaic italic style typical of Samnite bronzes. The surface of the field shows characteristic patination consistent with ancient bronze coinage of the region. |
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| Reverse description | A winged thunderbolt depicted in the central field, rendered with stylized feathered wings extending to either side. The Latin ethnic legend LADINEI arcs above the thunderbolt, identifying the issuing community of Larinum. The overall design reflects the Hellenistic iconographic conventions adopted by Samnite communities in this period. |
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Larinum was a Frentani settlement in Samnite territory whose brief autonomous coinage — confined largely to the third century BC — reflects the political turbulence following Rome's consolidation of central Italy after the Samnite Wars. This bronze issue belongs to a municipally struck series that ceased entirely once Roman administrative pressure rendered local coinages redundant, making the window of production narrow and the surviving corpus correspondingly small.
Campana 3 specimens are frequently found with uneven flans, a known characteristic of the series rather than a strike defect.