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| Issuer | Poseidonia |
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| Year | 420 BC - 390 BC |
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| Currency | Phocaean/Campanian Drachm |
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| Reverse description | A bull butting left, depicted in robust relief with musculature carefully articulated in the Lucanian artistic tradition. An octopus is shown in the exergue beneath the bull, serving as a secondary civic symbol alluding to the maritime character of Poseidonia. The ethnic legend ΡΟΣΕΙΔΑ arcs above the bull in Greek characters. The overall composition reflects the strong Italic-Greek coinage style of the late fifth century BC. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Poseidonia — the Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast known to Romans as Paestum — was producing bronze coinage during a period of intensifying pressure from the Lucanian tribes pushing down from the Apennine interior. The city fell to Lucanian control around 390 BC, after which the coinage character changed markedly. A piece from this bracket sits at the end of the colony's Greek civic identity.
HN Italy 1154 is among the smaller bronze fractions attributed to this mint. Poseidonian bronzes from this phase are not abundant; the colony was modest in size and the bronzes served local exchange rather than wide regional circulation.