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Asculum was one of the principal Apulian cities that issued bronze coinage during the period following Roman consolidation of the region after the Pyrrhic War. The city retained limited autonomous minting rights under Roman hegemony, and these bronzes represent some of the last indigenous issues before Asculum's coinage ceased entirely — likely suppressed in the aftermath of the Social War, when the city was besieged and sacked by Pompey Strabo in 89 BC, its population expelled and its civic identity effectively extinguished.