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Æ Triobol
| Issuer | Brettii |
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| Year | 216 BC - 214 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse lettering | NIKA |
| Reverse description | Zeus depicted in vigorous stride to the right, his right arm raised and extended to hurl a thunderbolt, his left hand grasping a long scepter. Between his feet, the control mark Γ occasionally appears. The ethnic legend BPETTIΩN rises upward along the left field, identifying the issuing authority of the Bruttii, a people of the toe of the Italian peninsula. |
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The Brettii — a Samnite-related people of Bruttium in the toe of Italy — began striking their own coinage only after breaking from Rome during the Second Punic War, aligning with Hannibal following the catastrophe at Cannae in 216 BC. This issue falls squarely within that window of defection, struck by a people who controlled most of southern Italy with Carthaginian backing but whose political independence proved short-lived. Rome retook Bruttium by 205 BC and effectively ended the Brettian minting program entirely, which concentrates the entire coinage into a tight decade of production.