1 Quartuncia

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.