Larinum was a Frentani settlement in Samnite territory whose brief autonomous coinage — confined largely to the third century BC — reflects the political turbulence following Rome's consolidation of central Italy after the Samnite Wars. This bronze issue belongs to a municipally struck series that ceased entirely once Roman administrative pressure rendered local coinages redundant, making the window of production narrow and the surviving corpus correspondingly small.
Campana 3 specimens are frequently found with uneven flans, a known characteristic of the series rather than a strike defect.
Larinum was a Frentani settlement in Samnite territory whose brief autonomous coinage — confined largely to the third century BC — reflects the political turbulence following Rome's consolidation of central Italy after the Samnite Wars. This bronze issue belongs to a municipally struck series that ceased entirely once Roman administrative pressure rendered local coinages redundant, making the window of production narrow and the surviving corpus correspondingly small.
Campana 3 specimens are frequently found with uneven flans, a known characteristic of the series rather than a strike defect.