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Poseidonia — the Greek colonial city on the Tyrrhenian coast — was seized by the Lucanian tribes around 390 BC and renamed Paestum, though bronze coinage continued to be struck under transitional authority for decades afterward. This piece falls within that contested period, when the issuing identity of the city was politically ambiguous enough that civic bronzes sometimes carried Greek-style types under de facto Oscan rule.

HN Italy 1158 places this among the later municipal issues before Roman intervention in 273 BC transformed Paestum into a Latin colony entirely.