Salapia was an Apulian coastal city whose political loyalties fractured catastrophically during the Second Punic War. After Hannibal wintered his troops there following Cannae, the city eventually switched back to Rome around 210 BC — a defection that reportedly cost the Carthaginian garrison stationed there their lives. Bronze issues attributed to this period sit at the precise intersection of that contested loyalty, struck by a community navigating occupation, alliance, and survival simultaneously.
HN Italy 690 places this type within a sequence poorly understood in terms of precise chronological ordering, and die linkage studies for Salapia remain limited compared to better-documented Apulian mints.
Salapia was an Apulian coastal city whose political loyalties fractured catastrophically during the Second Punic War. After Hannibal wintered his troops there following Cannae, the city eventually switched back to Rome around 210 BC — a defection that reportedly cost the Carthaginian garrison stationed there their lives. Bronze issues attributed to this period sit at the precise intersection of that contested loyalty, struck by a community navigating occupation, alliance, and survival simultaneously.
HN Italy 690 places this type within a sequence poorly understood in terms of precise chronological ordering, and die linkage studies for Salapia remain limited compared to better-documented Apulian mints.