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Sextans
| Issuer | Brundisium |
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| Year | 215 BC |
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| Weight | 17.69 g |
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| Reverse lettering | BR - VN |
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| Mint | Brundisium (modern Brindisi) |
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Brundisium — modern Bruttium — struck bronze coinage during the Second Punic War under conditions of acute military pressure, with Hannibal's forces having already crossed into Italy. The 215 BC date places this issue squarely in the aftermath of Cannae, one of Rome's worst battlefield defeats, when allied Italian mints were producing bronze to support the Roman war effort even as loyalty among the Italian allies was fracturing badly.
The sextans denomination, worth one-sixth of an as, was the workhorse of small transactions in this period.