bgr_978345 - APULIA - SALAPIA Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 275-250 AC.
Mint name / Town : Salapia, Apulie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 8,99 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais régulière. Joli revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Cheval marchant à droite.
Obverse legend : LAIOU
Reverse
Reverse description : Dauphin nageant à droite.
Reverse legend : SALPINWN
Historical background
APULIA - SALAPIA
(4th - 3rd century BC)
Salapia, ancient city of Apulia, was a fortified settlement of the Messapians with access to the Adriatic Sea. Tradition attributed the foundation of Salapia to Diomedes. Salapia was first Rome's ally in the wars against the Samnites. In 216, after the disaster of Cannae where Rome was crushed, Dazos, the ruler of Arpi abandoned the Roman alliance to rally Hannibal and the Carthaginians (Appian, Hannibal VII, 31). The city received a Numidian garrison before being taken over by the Romans in 210 BC. The city was taken and ransacked during the Social War, then abandoned in the 1st century BC..
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