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Beschrijving voorzijde	Head of a female deity facing right, wearing a distinctive headdress adorned with winged serpents, rendered in the archaic Oscan style characteristic of southern Italian bronzes of the mid-third century BC. The hair is swept back beneath the headdress, with facial features modeled in low relief. A beaded or dotted border encircles the field.
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Opschrift keerzijde	PAL (Translation: Pallanum)
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Aanvullende informatie	Pallanum was a small Frentanian settlement in the Abruzzo region whose civic coinage output was extremely limited — this bronze is among the very few types attributed to the mint with any confidence. The Frentani occupied an awkward political position during the third century, having submitted to Rome after the Samnite Wars yet retaining enough autonomy to strike local bronze for another generation. That window closed permanently during the Social War. The Lloyd specimen cited in the SNG reference sold as part of one of the twentieth century's most closely studied ancient bronze collections, and its attribution helped anchor the Pallanum series against competing ascriptions to neighboring Frentanian centers.