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Nuceria Alfaterna, the Oscan city on the Sarno plain south of Vesuvius, issued bronze coinage during a period of acute political stress — the city had been a Latin ally of Rome, suffered badly in the Social War's precursors, and its civic identity was contested enough that local bronze issues served a distinctly municipal rather than interregional function. HN Italy 2447 is a small series with limited die production, meaning surviving specimens frequently share identifiable die links across collections, including the Copenhagen example catalogued as 1906.