Mint of Calabria

In the district called by the Greeks Messapia and Iapygia, and by the Romans Calabria, the only town which presents us with a continuous series of coins, extending from the earliest period down to its final cap- ture by the Romans is the populous and wealthy city of Tarentum. The other and less important towns only began to coin money at a later date, with the single exception of Aletium, if the didrachms reading FΑΛΕΘΑS and ΒΑΛΕΘΑS are correctly attributed to it. Little is known about the periods which coins where struck in the cities of Calabria.

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In the district called by the Greeks Messapia and Iapygia, and by the Romans Calabria, the only town which presents us with a continuous series of coins, extending from the earliest period down to its final cap- ture by the Romans is the populous and wealthy city of Tarentum. The other and less important towns only began to coin money at a later date, with the single exception of Aletium, if the didrachms reading FΑΛΕΘΑS and ΒΑΛΕΘΑS are correctly attributed to it. Little is known about the periods which coins where struck in the cities of Calabria.

Subject ID: 127281

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