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Submitted for award of PhD September 2006. - King's College London

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6.6.2. Silver and bronze coins from Nuceria Alfaterna<br />

Among the coins found in the southern part <strong>of</strong> the bay <strong>of</strong> Naples, nine types <strong>for</strong>m a<br />

special group. They bear the legend nuvkrinum alafaternum with some variations. As<br />

previously mentioned, Beloch interpreted these coins as federal coins, which served as<br />

common money <strong>for</strong> all the towns <strong>of</strong> his supposed Nucerian League.<br />

1. "nuvkrinum alafaternum `-arasnei-/ amsnei819 (silver)<br />

2.<br />

`nuvkirinum valafjater]num820<br />

(silver)<br />

3. nuvrikum alaften[um]821 (silver)<br />

4. nuvrikum alavfnum822 (silver)<br />

5. nuvkrinum ala(3aternum823 (bronze)<br />

6. nuvkrium alafaternum `regvinum ravalanum824 (bronze)<br />

7. nuvkrinum alafaternum825 (bronze)<br />

8. nüvkrinum alafaternüm826 (bronze)<br />

9. nüvkrinüm alafaternum827 (bronze)<br />

The weight <strong>of</strong> the Nucerian silver coins follows that <strong>of</strong> the Neapolitan coinage in the<br />

first half <strong>of</strong> the third century BC. On the obverse <strong>of</strong> all the didrachms we have the head<br />

<strong>of</strong> a young man with long hair and a ram's horn. The reverse <strong>of</strong> the coins depicts a naked<br />

young man, perhaps one <strong>of</strong> the Dioscuri, holding a horse by its harness and leaning on a-<br />

javelin. Most <strong>of</strong> the bronze coins bear the head <strong>of</strong> a young man on the obverse and a dog<br />

819 ST nCm 3c, Co 144, Bu 76.<br />

620 ST nCm 3g.<br />

821 ST nCm 3h.<br />

822 ST nCm 3i.<br />

823 ST nCm 3a, Co 144, Bu 76.<br />

824 ST nCm 3b<br />

825 ST nCm 3d<br />

826 ST nCm 3e.<br />

827 ST nCm 3f.<br />

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