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1 Terunx
| Issuer | Ariminum |
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| Year | 268 BC - 225 BC |
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| Value | 1 Terunx = 3 Uncia |
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| Reverse description | A large trident displayed vertically in the centre of the field, its three prongs pointing upward, serving as the principal type of this aes grave denomination. Three pellets arranged to the right of the trident shaft serve as the value mark indicating three unciae (Terunx). The design is cast in high relief with a plain, unadorned field, consistent with the aes grave coinage tradition of the Ariminum mint. |
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| Mint | Ariminum (modern Rimini) |
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Ariminum — modern Rimini — was established as a Latin colony in 268 BC, the same year this series almost certainly began production. The colony sat at the northern terminus of the Via Flaminia and served as Rome's primary military staging point for operations against the Gauls of the Po Valley. The terunx, valued at three unciae, belongs to the heavy aes grave tradition before the First Punic War's financial strain forced Rome and its allies into successive weight reductions. At roughly 96 grams, this piece pre-dates the most dramatic of those reductions.
The series ended abruptly around 225 BC, the year of the Battle of Telamon, where Roman and allied forces halted the last major Gallic incursion into peninsular Italy.