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  samnium - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
Samnium, situated as it was, midway between the Greek silver-coining states of the south and the bronze-coining peoples of the north, had in early times absolutely no coinage of its own.
Mommsen attributes this last coin to Samnium on the strength of a passage of Strabo (v.
There were two towns of this name in Samnium, one near Bovianum, the other not far from the borders of Apulia.
www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=samnium   (502 words)

  
  Samnium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samnium (Oscan Safinim) was a region of the southern Apennines in Italy that was home to the Samnites, a group of Sabellic tribes that controlled the area from about 600 BC to about 290 BC.
Samnium was delimited by Latium in the north, by Lucania in the south, by Campania in the west and by Apulia in the east.
In 82 BC the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla slaughtered many of them and forced the rest to disperse.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samnium   (274 words)

  
 Ancient coins of Samnium
Samnium, situated as it was, midway between the Greek silver-coining states of the south and the bronze-coining peoples of the north, had in early times absolutely no coinage of its own.
Mommsen attributes this last coin to Samnium on the strength of a passage of Strabo (v.
It is not until after the final subjection of Samnium by the Romans, circ.
www.snible.org /coins/hn/samnium.html   (498 words)

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