5 Units Head of Apulu

Peithesa was a minor Lucanian mint operating in the turbulent decades following Pyrrhus of Epirus's intervention in southern Italy — a period when dozens of small Oscan-speaking communities issued their own bronze coinage, often in direct response to the disruption of Greek monetary networks along the coast. The attribution to Peithesa itself took considerable scholarly effort to settle; the mint's identification relied heavily on finding the town's Oscan name in epigraphic sources corroborating the coin legends.

HN Italy 74 is among the rarer entries in that corpus for this region.