Didrachm

Phistelia was a small Oscan community in Campania whose coinage remains poorly understood — the attribution itself has shifted repeatedly in modern scholarship, with some authorities previously assigning these issues to nearby Hyria. The didrachm series was struck during a narrow window when Campanian communities briefly produced their own silver, likely tied to mercenary activity in Sicily under Dionysius I of Syracuse, who recruited heavily from the region in precisely this period.