Uncia

Caelia was a small Peucetian settlement in Apulia — modern Ceglie del Campo, near Bari — that struck its own bronze coinage during a narrow window of the Second Punic War's aftermath, when Rome was consolidating control over southern Italian communities that had variously sided with Hannibal. Caelia had remained loyal to Rome, which likely explains why it retained the privilege of local coinage at all. The uncia denomination, the smallest fractional unit of the as system, would have circulated almost exclusively within the immediate region.