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Vestini

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The coins of this people, who occupied a mountainous district between the Apennines and the Adriatic, may be assigned to the towns of Pinna (Cività di Penne) in the interior, and Aternum (Pescara), which lay upon the coast some twenty miles south of Hatria.

In B.C. 301 the Vestini concluded a treaty of alliance with Rome, and between that date and B.C. 268 the coinage falls. It is imitated from the money of Umbria and Picenum.

Triens. Inside of shell. VES Club.
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Sextans. Bull’s head facing.
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VES Crescent.
Uncia. Bipennis.
VES Shell.
Semuncia. Shoe. VES No type.


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Vestini, a people of central Italy. The first mention of them in history is when they concluded an alliance with the Samnites against Rome in 324 BC, but were defeated. In 301 BC they concluded a treaty with the Romans and remained faithful to Rome till the Social War in 90 BC. They were again rediced to submission and received the Roman franchise.

Coins attributed: Aes grave. Triens, Sextans, Uncia, and semuncia: all with VES.

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