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Denarius Marsic Confederation
| Issuer | Marsic Confederation |
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| Year | 91 BC - 87 BC |
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| Value | Denarius (1) |
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| Obverse lettering | 𐌌𐌖𐌕𐌕𐌉𐌋 |
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| Reverse script | Old Italics |
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The Marsic Confederation issued this coin during the Social War, the Italian allies' armed revolt against Rome that very nearly destroyed the Republic. The insurgent states formed a rival Italian federation — calling their capital Corfinium and renaming it Italica — and struck silver coinage partly as a political act: a declaration that Rome had no exclusive claim to the instruments of statehood. The confederation's mint output was functionally a war treasury.
The conflict ended not through Roman military victory alone but because Rome conceded the central demand — citizenship — via the lex Iulia of 90 BC and lex Plautia Papiria of 89 BC, rendering the confederation's political apparatus redundant almost immediately.