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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2804654, member: 74282&quot;]Excellent pickup. I&#039;ve been looking for one of these trientes for quite some time but have yet to find the right one. I will help add a bit to the story of yours adapted from <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-sextans-from-canusium.294457/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-sextans-from-canusium.294457/">a previous thread</a> where I shared a sextans of this series:</p><p><br /></p><p>This triens comes from the CA series thought to have been struck in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canosa_di_Puglia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canosa_di_Puglia" rel="nofollow">Canusium, modern-day Canosa, Italy</a>. You can&#039;t see the CA on yours but the style is entirely consistent with the CA series and the CA trientes, as far as I have seen, always come overstruck on bronzes of Acarnania and Oeniadae. So, why would a series struck in Southeast Italy have so many known overstrikes on undertypes from far away across the Adriatic?</p><p><br /></p><p>The answer is that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Valerius_Laevinus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Valerius_Laevinus" rel="nofollow">Marcus Valerius Laevinus</a> had earlier driven the Macedonians from this region and this issue from Canusium represents booty captured during this fighting and brought back with the fleet when M. Valerius landed in Southern Italy circa 210-209 B.C.. The trientes are all overstruck likely because many of the captured coins were close enough to the necessary weight and the rest of the denominations were probably largely struck on flans whose bronze came from melting down and recasting of the captured booty, with a small number being overstruck on earlier coins that were the correct size. Since this issue contains no precious metal coinage, I think it likely that if any precious metal was captured it was either sent back to Rome or used by one of the other Roman field mints operating in Apulia.</p><p><br /></p><p>My only example from the &quot;CA&quot; series, the extremely rare sextans denomination, whose value would have been half of your triens:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]654818[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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