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| Issuer | Neapolis (Campania) |
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| Year | 250 BC - 225 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΡΟ ΝΕΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ |
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| Mintage | ND (250 BC - 225 BC) |
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Neapolis — modern Naples — occupied a peculiar political position during this period, nominally allied with Rome after 326 BC but retaining its Greek civic identity more stubbornly than almost any other Campanian city. Bronze small-denomination issues like this one were produced to meet local market demand that Roman coinage was not yet equipped to satisfy; Rome's own systematic bronze coinage was still finding its footing in the mid-third century. The Social War was still a century away, but the tensions that would eventually erupt were already embedded in arrangements like this one.