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Aquilonia was a Samnite town in the upper Aufidus valley, best known as the site of Rome's decisive victory in 293 BC when the consul Spurius Carvilius routed a Samnite army that had undergone the ver sacrum ritual consecration — the so-called Linen Legion. That Rome allowed the town to continue issuing bronze coinage some three decades after that defeat reflects the piecemeal, negotiated nature of post-war Samnite integration rather than outright annexation. The series is rare, with few specimens documented across the major reference works.