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Æ19
| Issuer | Neapolis (Campania) |
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| Year | 250 BC - 225 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A seven-stringed lyre positioned to the left and a conical omphalos to the right, both emblems sacred to Apollo, set above a ground line. The ethnic legend NEOΠOΛITΩN appears in the lower field in clear Greek characters, identifying the issuing city of Neapolis. The composition is rendered in a compact, bold relief typical of late Campanian bronze coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | NEOΠOΛITΩN |
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Neapolis maintained a remarkable degree of monetary autonomy under Roman hegemony following the Social War settlements of the late 4th century, continuing to strike its own bronze coinage well into the mid-Republican period. By the time these pieces were produced, the city had been a Roman ally — formally a *civitas foederata* — for roughly a century, yet retained the civic right to coin, an arrangement Rome extended to very few communities in Campania.
The SNG ANS 524ff reference covers a die cluster with enough variation to suggest multiple emission phases within the quarter-century span.