Sextans

Caelia was a small Peucetian settlement in Apulia — modern Ceglie del Campo, near Barium — whose bronze coinage was produced during the prolonged Roman consolidation of southern Italy following the Pyrrhic and Hannibalic wars. The city retained enough local autonomy to mint its own fractional bronze through much of this period, though production almost certainly ceased as Roman administrative integration tightened in the late second century.

The sextans, worth one-sixth of an as, was the workhorse of small transactions in this region. HN Italy 762 places this type within a well-documented but genuinely scarce series; the SNG ANS holdings record only three specimens across accession numbers 667–669.