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Biunx
| Issuer | Capua |
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| Year | 216 BC - 211 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (216 BC - 211 BC) |
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Capua struck this bronze during the years it had defected to Hannibal following Rome's catastrophic defeat at Cannae in 216 BC. The city's alliance with Carthage prompted Rome to besiege and retake it in 211 BC, after which Capua was stripped of its political autonomy entirely — its citizens enslaved or executed, its magistrates executed to a man. Coinage from this window is effectively the output of a city that knew its independence was borrowed time.
The biunx denomination, worth two unciae, is among the less frequently encountered subdivisions of the Campanian bronze series.