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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > GI93427
Capua, Campania, Italy, c. 216 - 214 B.C.
|Italy|, |Capua,| |Campania,| |Italy,| |c.| |216| |-| |214| |B.C.|, The name of Capua comes from the Etruscan Capeva. The meaning is 'City of Marshes.' Its foundation is attributed by Cato the Elder to the Etruscans, and the date given as about 260 years before it was "taken" by Rome. If this is true it refers not to its capture in the Second Punic War (211 B.C.) but to its submission to Rome in 338 B.C., placing the date of foundation at about 600 B.C., while Etruscan power was at its highest. In the area several settlements of the Villanovian civilization were present in prehistoric times, and these were probably enlarged by the Oscans and subsequently by the Etruscans.
GI93427. Bronze biunx, HN Italy 488; SNG Cop 334; SNG ANS 206; BMC Italy p.????, 9; Weber 293; Sambon 1032, aF, scrapes, porosity/corrosion, Capua (Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy) mint, weight 14.592g, maximum diameter 24.4mm, die axis 225o, c. 216 - 214 B.C.; obverse bearded head of Jupiter right, three pellets behind; reverse Diana driving a biga right, two stars above, Oscan inscription KAPU in exergue; from the Errett Bishop Collection; rare; SOLD




  







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