Hyrium was a small Oscan settlement in Apulia whose civic coinage was produced during a period when the region was caught between Roman expansion and the residual Greek cultural influence along the Adriatic coast. The city's bronze issues are rare enough that significant examples turn up primarily in the major European cabinet collections — the BMC, Lloyd, and ANS holdings between them account for a disproportionate share of known specimens.
Hyrium was a small Oscan settlement in Apulia whose civic coinage was produced during a period when the region was caught between Roman expansion and the residual Greek cultural influence along the Adriatic coast. The city's bronze issues are rare enough that significant examples turn up primarily in the major European cabinet collections — the BMC, Lloyd, and ANS holdings between them account for a disproportionate share of known specimens.