Catalog
Æ18
| Issuer | Pallanum |
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| Year | 260 BC - 240 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Janiform head depicted facing outward in both directions, rendered within a beaded border. The two conjoined facing heads share a central axis, presented in the archaic Italic tradition typical of coinage from Samnite and related Oscan communities of the period. The surfaces show characteristic flat relief of hammered bronze production. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pallanum was a Frentanian settlement in central-eastern Italy whose coinage output was extremely limited, placing it among the more obscure civic mints of pre-Roman Samnite territory. The Frentani submitted to Rome following the Samnite Wars, and civic bronze issues like this one were likely obsolete within a generation of striking — which explains both their rarity and their frequent absence from the standard HN Italy corpus.
The Sambon attribution (Art#198) remains the primary scholarly anchor for this type.