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Silver 5 Asses Male head, blank
| Issuer | Lucania |
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| Year | 325 BC - 301 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | V (Translation: 5) |
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The fractional silver coinages of Lucania during this period fall into a contested zone of attribution — ancient Lucania was not a single political entity but a loose confederation of Oscan-speaking peoples, and the civic or federal authority behind specific issues remains debated among specialists. This piece, catalogued across multiple major references with reasonable consistency, belongs to a group likely produced to facilitate trade along the Tyrrhenian coast during a period of intense pressure from both Syracusan expansion to the south and the encroaching Roman presence to the north.