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the name <strong>of</strong> the place to Italia. He also tells us that the allies elected vrräTovc and<br />

QTpaurgyoüc and that the gens <strong>of</strong> the leader was Pompaedius. 113<br />

The archaic ethnic safin- was employed again during the Social War. Among<br />

the bulk <strong>of</strong> coins produced by the allies to fund their military expenses in the Social<br />

War between 90 and 88 BC, we have a handful <strong>of</strong> silver coins that bear the ethnic<br />

safinim. 114 The iconography <strong>of</strong> the coins <strong>of</strong> the allies is partly borrowed from Rome<br />

though invested with new meaning but new themes also appear. 115 The early coins<br />

display the Dioscuri, oath-scenes and a bull trampling a wolf as their reverse types.<br />

Some <strong>of</strong> these coins had the legend Italia in Latin characters. 117 Later issues include<br />

coins with the legend Italia in Oscan, Viteliü. Other coins give the name <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Samnite general, Gaius Papius Mutilus son <strong>of</strong> Gaius on the obverse in Oscan<br />

script. ' 18 The reverse <strong>of</strong> this coin type <strong>of</strong>ten features a reclining bull and a soldier<br />

with a spear and a sword standing next to the bull. Central figures on the coins with<br />

Oscan legends are the (mythical) bull, either reclining or trampling the Roman she-<br />

wolf and the goddesses Victoria and Italia. Oath-taking scenes or soldiers with<br />

swords and spears also appear on the coins. The coins with the Latin legends<br />

probably circulated among the northern allies, those with the Oscan legend among<br />

the southern members. Within this group, the coins bearing the ethnic safinim<br />

probably referred to one group <strong>of</strong> allies. In Diodorus, the Samnites are listed as one<br />

same person, Gaius Papius Mutilus, who also appears on the coins <strong>of</strong> the allies. See section 2.4 on<br />

Social elite.<br />

1" Strabo 5.4.2.<br />

114 Craw<strong>for</strong>d (1964) 148.<br />

115 On links with Roman coins see the article <strong>of</strong> Craw<strong>for</strong>d (1964).<br />

116 Craw<strong>for</strong>d (1964) 146-8. ST nPg la-8.<br />

1" See Rutter (2001) 55-57, nr 406428. One coin with the legend Italia also shows the name <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Marsic leader as Q. Silo.<br />

"8<br />

nPg 6a and 6b The title embratur also appears on two types by the name <strong>of</strong> the commander, Gaius<br />

Papius Mutilus. One coin also shows the name <strong>of</strong> another general, N. Lucius son <strong>of</strong> Maraeus.<br />

" 6<br />

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