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Uncia
| Issuer | Luceria |
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| Year | 225 BC - 217 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | A frog depicted in relief at center, rendered schematically in the style characteristic of early south Italian bronze coinage. The device occupies the full field of the irregular flan, with no legend or border. The casting technique gives the image a bold, slightly raised appearance against the plain field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Luceria, the ancient Apulian city garrisoned by Rome following its capture in 314 BC, produced this heavy cast bronze series during a period of acute military pressure — the years bracketing the Second Punic War's opening campaigns. The unciā denomination represented one-twelfth of the as, and Luceria's issues from this period are distinguished within the Italian coinage system precisely because they were produced by a Roman colony operating its own mint, a relatively rare arrangement reflecting the strategic importance Rome placed on the site.
HN Italy 674 places this type firmly within the pre-reform heavy standard, before the dramatic weight reductions that followed Rome's fiscal crisis after Cannae in 216 BC.