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Drachm
| Issuer | Brettii |
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| Year | 216 BC - 214 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (216 BC - 214 BC) |
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The Brettii — a confederation of Oscan-speaking peoples in Bruttium, the toe of the Italian peninsula — began striking their own coinage only after aligning with Hannibal following his catastrophic defeat of Roman forces at Cannae in 216 BC. This issue dates precisely to that opening window of collaboration, when Carthaginian presence in southern Italy made such monetary independence briefly viable. Rome's eventual reconquest of the region was thorough and punitive; the Brettii effectively ceased to exist as a political entity afterward, which keeps the window of production for HN Italy 1959 narrow and historically fixed.