weight 7,80gr. ; bronze Ø 19mm.

obv. Laureate head of Zeus left, thunderbolt behind
rev. Kalydonian boar running right, spear-head above, APΠA in exergue

Arpi was an ancient city of Apulia, near modern Foggia. Its territory extended to the sea, and Strabo says that from the extent of the city walls one could gather that it had once been one of the greatest cities of Italy. As a protection against the Samnites, Arpi became an ally of Rome. In the war with Pyrrhus, the Arpani aided Rome with a contingent of 4000 foot and 400 horse. Arpi remained faithful to Rome until Rome′s defeat at the battle of Cannae, but the consul Quintus Fabius Maximus, son of the famous Roman dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, captured it in 213 B.C., and it never recovered its former importance. It lay on a by-road from Luceria to Sipontum. No Roman inscriptions have, indeed, been found here, and remains of antiquity are scanty. Foggia is its medieval representative.

BMC 5; SNG.Cop.605 ; SNG.ANS.639 ; SNG.München 436 ;
McClean 407 ; SNG.Paris 1228 S
very attractive coin with dark patina
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weight 6,99gr. ; bronze Ø 20mm.

obv. Bull charging right, ΠOYΛΛI below (not visible)
rev. Horse galloping right, APΠA above, NOY below

This issue was minted in name of Poullos. He probably was the father
of the Dazos who defected to Hannibal during the First Punic War.

BMC 6 ; SNG.Copenhagen 607 ; McClean 400 ; SNG.Paris 1244-1247 ;
Historia Numorum, Italy 645 ; SNG.Oxford 182 ; SNG.ANS.640-643 ;
SNG.München 440-444 ; SNG.Milano 14031 ; SNG. Hungary 522-528 ;
Weber collection 427 ; Lindgren collection 211 ; HGC 1, no.535 S
traces of oxidation
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weight 8,83gr. ; bronze Ø 21mm.

obv. Laureate head of Apollo right with quiver at shoulder,
ΣAΛAΠINΩN in front
rev. Horse prancing right, trident above, ΠYΛΛOY belowh

BMC 3 ; SNG.Copenhagen 682 ; SNG.ANS.734 ; SNG.München 520 ;
SNG.Paris 1408 ; Historia Numorum, Italy no.692 ;  Sear 591 R
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