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| Issuer | Petelia |
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| Year | 214 BC - 208 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A hound depicted in full sprint to the right, with all four legs extended in a flying gallop, conveying vigorous forward motion. The Greek ethnic legend ΠETHΛINΩN appears divided around the type, with part of the inscription above and part below the hound. The design is set within a beaded border, the field otherwise plain. |
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| Mintage | ND (214 BC - 208 BC) |
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Petelia, a Bruttian town of Oscan origin, earned an unusual place in the history of the Second Punic War by holding out against Hannibal for an extraordinary length of time — ancient sources, including Livy, record a siege so prolonged and desperate that the town's inhabitants were reduced to eating leather and grass before finally capitulating around 214–213 BC. Rome's failure to relieve them became a source of lasting shame. These bronzes were struck in the final years before or during that siege, which gives even the most worn survivors a specific historical weight that the catalog numbers alone cannot convey.