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| 裏面の説明 | A warrior striding left, depicted in profile, bearing a round shield on his left arm and a long spear in his right hand; the figure is rendered in a schematic Italic style. The Latin legend ARIM appears in the lower field below the figure, serving as an abbreviated ethnic identifying the mint city of Ariminum. |
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Ariminum (modern Rimini) was among the Latin colonies established on the Adriatic coast primarily as a military buffer against Gallic incursion, and its bronze coinage reflects that frontier function — produced to pay and supply garrisons rather than to facilitate commercial exchange. The quartuncia, a quarter of an uncia and therefore a sixty-fourth of the as, represents the smallest fractional denomination in this series, which itself raises questions about how such a tiny value circulated in a colonial economy operating largely on barter and military disbursement.