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Quadrans
| Issuer | Copia |
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| Year | 193 BC - 150 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Herakles facing right, rendered in archaic Italic style with curling hair and youthful features. Three pellets arranged vertically in the left field serve as the mark of value for the quadrans denomination. The portraiture is bold and slightly stylized, characteristic of early Roman colonial bronze coinage from Cisalpine Gaul. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Copia was the Latin colony established by Rome at Thurii in 193 BC, its very name — meaning "abundance" — a pointed piece of Roman propaganda aimed at legitimizing displacement of the existing Greek population. The colony's bronze coinage, struck locally, circulated within a tight regional economy and saw little export, which partly explains why surviving specimens tend to show heavy wear from intensive local use.