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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2634747, member: 51347&quot;]Cool coin and subject [USER=38412]@7Calbrey[/USER] !</p><p><br /></p><p>I have Xoana from the time of Hannibal&#039;s occupation of Capua...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]580360[/ATTACH]</p><p>Campania, Capua </p><p>Æ Semuncia circa 216-211 BCE, </p><p>Æ 18.4mm., 4.58g.</p><p>Obv: Bust of Juno r., holding sceptre on shoulder. </p><p>Rev: KAPV (<i>in Oscan)</i> Two xoana draped. </p><p>Ref: SNG ANS 215. Historia Numorum Italy 495.</p><p>Comment: Rare. Green patina. Obv. Slightly double struck</p><p><i>Ex: From the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Notes:&nbsp; When Hannibal occupied Capua during the Second Punic War, he worked with the local Aristocracy and promised to make Capua the capital of Italia, and would raze Rome, once he destroyed the Romans.&nbsp; However, history was different from his promises.&nbsp; After the Punic War, Rome confiscated and tried to destroy all Capuan coinage minted during this time.&nbsp; They wanted to destroy any memory of Hannibal, and to further punish Capua. Consequently, Hannibal occupied coinage from Capua seems difficult to find.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Xoana definition:&nbsp; Wikipedia explains it well...</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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