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| Issuer | Capua |
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| Year | 216 BC - 211 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Nike (Victory) advancing left, winged and partially draped, extending a wreath in her outstretched right hand; a star symbol appears in the lower left field. The figures are enclosed within a beaded border. Below the main type, the Oscan legend in the Old Italic script of Capua appears in the exergual area, identifying the issuing authority. The composition reflects strong Hellenistic artistic influence common to Campanian civic bronze coinage of this period. |
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| Mintage | ND (216 BC - 211 BC) |
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Capua defected to Hannibal after Cannae in 216 BC — one of Rome's most stinging political losses of the Second Punic War — and began issuing its own bronze coinage as an assertion of independence from Roman monetary authority. This issue falls within that window of autonomy, which ended brutally in 211 BC when Roman forces retook the city, executed the pro-Carthaginian senate, and stripped Capua of all civic rights. The city was never again permitted to govern itself as a municipality.