1 Obol Without legend, open wings, facing right

Alba Fucens was a Latin colony planted by Rome in 303 BC deep in Aequian territory, sitting astride the Via Valeria at roughly 1000 meters elevation in the central Apennines. Its coinage is exceptionally brief — this obol belongs to a small autonomous issue struck in the years immediately following the Latin War settlement, before Rome systematically curtailed allied minting rights. The colony likely struck these pieces to facilitate local market exchange in a region where Roman coinage had not yet fully penetrated.

The series is rare by any measure, with surviving specimens spread thinly across a handful of major collections including the ANS.