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Litra
| Issuer | Suessa Aurunca |
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| Year | 265 BC - 240 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing left, wearing a crested Corinthian-style helmet pushed back on the crown of the head, with curling locks of hair visible beneath. The facial features are rendered in the Italic Greek style characteristic of Campanian bronzes of the early third century BC. A dotted border frames the design field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Suessa Aurunca, an Aurunci settlement absorbed into the Roman alliance system following the Latin War, struck bronze litrae during a window that coincides almost exactly with Rome's earliest engagement in the First Punic War. The city held Latin colony status from 313 BC, and its autonomous coinage — always limited in volume — reflects the peculiar semi-independence Rome permitted certain allied communities before the Social War ultimately ended such arrangements.
The litra denomination itself derives from a Sicilian weight standard, its adoption by Campanian and neighboring mints a direct consequence of monetary contact with Greek southern Italy.