Didrachm

Nola was an Oscan-speaking settlement in Campania that maintained enough commercial independence in the early fourth century to strike its own silver coinage, despite operating in a region contested between Greek coastal cities and inland Samnite populations. The didrachm series to which this piece belongs shows strong influence from Neapolitan and Cumean minting traditions, reflecting economic entanglement with the Greek cities even as Nola retained a distinct civic identity. The city would later gain a different kind of notoriety as the place where Augustus died in 14 AD, though by then its autonomous coinage was centuries gone.