Boar at right; dot at top (indication of value). In exergue (KAPU) Oscan alphabet.
Æ, 7,09 fake specimen
The coinage of Capua concerns coins minted in ancient Capua, a city in ancient Campania, corresponding to present-day Santa Maria Capua Vetere. The city was located on the Appian Way and was the most important in the area, probably the largest center in the Italian peninsula after Rome.
During the Second Punic War, in 216 B.C. after the Battle of Cannae, the city chose to side with the Carthaginians. It was during this period that coins were minted bearing the city's name, KAPU, with letters of the Oscan alphabet and with mirror script.
After Hannibal's departure, the city returned to Roman occupation, permanently ceasing minting and later using Roman coinage centered on the denarius.
Capua, unlike other communities in the area, had not previously issued coinage because, after its deditio to Rome in 343 B.C., in order to defend itself against the Samnites, it had become to all intents and purposes Roman and therefore did not use coins of its own.
Traditionally numismatists treat the coins of Capua within the framework of Greek coinage.[1]
The coinageofCapua concerns coins minted in ancient Capua, a city in ancient Campania, corresponding to present-day Santa Maria Capua Vetere. The city...
Capua (/ˈkæpjuə/ KAP-yoo-ə, Italian: [ˈkaːpwa]) is a city and comune in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, situated 25 km...
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10 October 1144), was the Prince ofCapua from 1135 and Duke of Naples from 1139. He was an Italian-born Norman of the noble Hauteville family. After...
indicate that the Nerii were probably of Umbrian or Sabine origin. Such an origin is supported by an inscription from Capua, mentioning an Ovius Nerius, Ovius...
II (tried to become king in 774) Also princes ofCapua from 900 to 981. 774–787 Arechis II (independent of any royal authority) 787–806 Grimoald III 806–817...
cousin once removed Prince Richard II ofCapua, Borsa and his uncle Count Roger I of Sicily began the siege ofCapua, from which the prince had long ago...
control and his title to the count of Aversa. In 1058, Gaeta was made subject to the count of Aversa, by then prince ofCapua. Pandulf I (1032–1038) Pandulf...
ofCapua. On 24 April 1135 a Pisan fleet with 8,000 reinforcements, captained by Robert ofCapua, anchored in Naples and the duchy was the centre of the...
The coinageof Cales concerns coins minted in Cales, a city in Campania, the most important urban center of the ancient Italic population of the Ausones...
Roman Republican Coinage, Cambridge University Press (1974, 2001). Heikki Solin, "Nuove iszrizioni di Capua" (New Inscriptions from Capua, part 3), in Oebalus...
fleeing Sergius of Naples and aided him in retaking his city with Norman assistance. For this, John V earned the enmity of Pandulf IV ofCapua and his duchy...
The Lombard coinageof Benevento, part of the more general Lombard coinage, is the set of coins minted between about 680 and the end of the ninth century...
city striking its own coinage, it was allied with Capua and the other Campanian cities in siding with Carthage after the battle of Cannae. It was occupied...
by its traditional rival, Pandulf IV ofCapua. In 1027, duke Sergius IV donated the county of Aversa to a band of Norman mercenaries led by Rainulf Drengot...
He was a constant ally of the pope and enemy of Ptolemy I of Tusculum. Or Richard I if Richard I ofCapua is not counted. Petri Diaconi, Chronica Monasterii...
despite the existence of Henry, Prince ofCapua brother of William. An effort by Bertrand II, archbishop of Trani, to negotiate the hand of Byzantine Princess...
exercised controls over the silver coinageof the realm, controlling its composition and value. The name of the emperor, not of the minter, appeared on the coins...
pre-existing tribal Oscan agro-towns ofCapua (modern-day Santa Maria Capua Vetere), Nuceria (modern-day comuni of Nocera Superiore and Nocera Inferiore)...
Retrieved 17 February 2014. Potter, W. J. The Coinageof Milan. p. 19. coin 4. "Modica". Heraldry of the World. Archived from the original on 26 July...
improbably, from the end of the 9th century, the principality ofCapua claimed Gaeta as a courtesy title for the younger son of its ruling prince. In the...
Amphitheatre in Rome and the vast amphitheatre in Capua. Though Trajan Decius may have struck coinage at Mediolanum, the sequence begins with Gallienus...
I ofCapua both of which he considered a threat to his principality. According to Valerie Eads, Gisulf instead relented because of a late payment of tribute...
background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire. Following tradition, this timeline marks the deposition of Romulus Augustulus...
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(KAPU) Oscan alphabet.