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Printed Auction 44 Lot 23

CAMPANIA. Capua. Punic issue under Hannibal. Circa 216-211 B.C. Æ biunx. 12.14 gm. 24 mm. Laureate head of Jupiter to right; two stars (mark of value) behind / Diana driving fast biga to right; two stars (mark of value) above, 'kapu' in Oscan in exergue. HN Italy 488. HGC 1, 386 (R1). SNG ANS 206-207. Near Extremely Fine; lovely green patina; good style; some minor edge flaws in flan (seemingly present before striking). An unusually attractive example of the Punic coinage of southern Italy. Rare.

Ex CNG MBS 22 (2 September 1992) lot 217.

Founded by the Etruscans in the early Fifth Century BC, the wealthy city of Capua was located in Campania on the Appian Way, and was the most important in the area, and probably the largest on the Italian peninsula after Rome. During the Second Punic War, in 216 BC after the Battle of Cannae, the city sided with Hannibal and the Carthaginians. Capua became an important military and political outpost supporting Hannibal's military campaign, and many scholars such as Head, Rutter, Sambon, Babelon, Haberlin, Mommsen, and more, referencing Pliny, believed that Capua minted the Romano-Campanian coinage, the first coined series of the city and of Rome. This example is one of a series of bronze coins bearing the city's name, KAPU, with letters of the Oscan alphabet with mirror script. After Hannibal departed in 211 BC, Rome conquered the city and many of its senators took poison or were killed.

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