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Larinum was a Frentanian town in Samnite territory that began issuing bronze coinage in the late third century BC, almost certainly in response to the pressures of Roman expansion into central Italy following the Samnite Wars. The city's independent coinage series is brief and poorly documented — this issue falls within a window when local autonomy was already contracting under Roman administrative influence.

The HN Italy #623 classification places it firmly within the regional bronze tradition of the Adriatic interior, a series that scholarship has struggled to sequence with confidence due to thin archaeological findspot data.