42 Nummi

The Vandal administration at Carthage inherited a functioning Roman mint and, rather than dismantling it, kept striking bronze coinage for local exchange — a pragmatic concession to a population that still thought in Roman denominational terms. The 42 nummi unit itself is an oddity with no clear Roman precedent, likely an improvised solution to local pricing needs in a monetized North African economy that the Vandals never fully controlled on their own terms.