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⅜ Shekel Carthaginian occupation of Bruttium
| Issuer | Brettii |
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| Year | 216 BC - 211 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (216 BC - 211 BC) |
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The Brettii — an Oscan-speaking people of the toe of Italy — allied with Hannibal after Cannae in 216 BC, a gamble that briefly made them masters of much of southern Italy. This electrum fraction belongs to the short window when that alliance still looked viable, struck under direct Carthaginian military influence and almost certainly funded by Punic bullion moving north from Sicily. The denomination itself mirrors Carthaginian weight standards rather than Greek ones, a deliberate alignment with their new sponsors.
By 211 BC the tide had turned irreversibly. Roman reconquest was systematic and punitive; the Brettii paid for their defection for generations.