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| Issuer | Teanum Sidicinum (Campania) |
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| Year | 265 BC - 240 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, wearing a Corinthian-style crested helmet adorned with a star or rosette motif on the bowl. The facial features are rendered in a vigorous Italic style, with curling locks of hair visible beneath the helmet rim. A small pendant or earring is discernible below the ear. The field is plain, and the flan shows the characteristic irregular edges typical of Campanian bronze coinage of this period. |
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| Reverse script | Old Italics |
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Teanum Sidicinum sat uncomfortably between Samnite territory and the expanding Roman alliance system throughout the third century BC, and its bronze coinage reflects that precarious position. The city issued under its own authority during a window that closes sometime around the Second Punic War, after which independent Campanian civic coinage effectively ceased. HN Italy 456 places this type among the later autonomous issues before Roman municipal absorption rendered local minting redundant.