Obol

Allifae was a Samnite town in the Telesinus valley, and its coinage — produced during the period of the Samnite Wars against Rome — is among the most sparsely documented of any central Italian mint. The attribution to Allifae itself rests on find-spot evidence and die-link analysis rather than any explicit ethnic legend, making the HN Italy sequence for this type partly inferential.

At under half a gram, these obols circulated in a regional economy with minimal monetization, likely serving small transaction needs during a period when Rome had not yet imposed monetary uniformity on the interior.