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| Issuer | Hyrium |
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| Year | 300 BC - 201 BC |
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| Reference(s) | HN Italy#667, SNG Copenhagen#647 |
| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus facing right, rendered in archaic Italic style with broad facial features and a wreath of laurel leaves framing the hair. The portrait is set within a plain field with no surrounding legend. The flan is compact and irregularly struck, as typical of small bronze issues from ancient Lucania. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hyrium was a small Apulian settlement whose coinage output was limited and geographically constrained, serving local exchange in a region repeatedly destabilized by the Samnite Wars and Rome's subsequent consolidation of southern Italy. The city effectively disappeared as an autonomous issuing authority once Roman administrative control over Apulia solidified in the early second century BC.
The HN Italy 667 attribution places this firmly among the minor Apulian bronzes — a notoriously difficult group where die links between communities occasionally suggest shared workshop production rather than independent municipal minting.