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| Issuer | Graxa (Calabria) |
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| Year | 250 BC - 225 BC |
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| Weight | 0.61 g |
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| Obverse description | Eight-rayed star in the field, with a crescent below, its horns pointing upward, framing the lower portion of the design. The composition is centrally placed within a plain, unbordered field typical of small Italic bronze coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse description | Thunderbolt depicted horizontally across the central field, with a crescent above, its horns pointing downward. The ethnic legend ΓΡΑ, in Greek characters, appears below the thunderbolt, identifying the issuing community of Graxa. The design is characteristic of the Italic Greek bronze coinage tradition of Calabria. |
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Graxa was a minor settlement in Calabria whose civic identity is almost entirely reconstructed from its coinage — no literary source names it with any confidence, and its precise location remains unresolved. HN Italy 778 is among the smallest issues attributed to the region, struck at a weight so reduced it likely functioned as a fractional denomination within a local bronze economy already under severe pressure from Roman expansion into southern Italy during the First Punic War period.