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Æ Biunces
| Issuer | Calatia (Campania) |
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| Year | 216 BC - 211 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse script | Old Italics |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Calatia was a Samnite town in the Campanian interior that defected to Hannibal following Cannae in 216 BC — one of many Italian communities that calculated, wrongly, that Carthage would win the war. This bronze was struck during precisely that window of Hannibalic occupation and alliance, making it a product of a city operating outside Roman authority. When Rome recovered the region and retook Calatia, such issues ceased entirely.
The biunces denomination, at two-twelfths of an as, reflects the fractional bronze coinage practiced in Campania under the Roman libral weight system before the Second Punic War disrupted mint output across the peninsula.