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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;romismatist, post: 8049046, member: 44106&quot;][According to RCV, &quot;<i>the quartuncia is the smallest denomination of the Roman bronze coinage, and has been briefly produced during the semilibral weight standard. With the further decline in the weight of the bronze coinage after 215 BC, issue of the experimental quartuncia ceased</i>.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Q[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p><p>There were other South Italian mints which also struck coinage with this evolving ponderal system. For example, the coinage of Brundisium, which was loyal to Rome (but whose coinage is somewhat separate in that it used local iconography / symbology and did not ever have a Rome ethnic) used pellets to denominate biuncia, uncia, semiuncia, quarter uncia, and eighth uncia coins. This later degraded to quadruncia, triuncia, biuncia, uncia and semiuncia nominals. These emissions occurred a little after 215 BC (around 209-205 BC). I think a number of other mints in South Italy also issued similar nominals, like [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER]&#039;s Luceria example, but not always in the name of Rome. Brundisium continued the quadruncia emission well into the second century BC. </p><p><br /></p><p>The quincunx or quincuncia was, oddly enough, first struck at the Messapian mint of Hyria/Orra around 208 - 202 BC. There were two emissions, with the one below struck from the end of the second century to the beginning of the first century BC. It depicts Venus on the obverse and Eros with his lyre on the reverse. There are two types, one struck with the portrait of Venus in good Hellenic style and a (likely later) one struck in a cruder style. This seems to be the only Messapian mint I&#039;m aware of which struck this nominal: (note: first coin is mine, the second isn&#039;t)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1393630[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1393631[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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