Rome uses the types of Campania

So that Rome imitates Greek or Punic models?

The will to integrate itself economically in the world of the Magna Greece is not the only reason for these emissions; very frequently, in base of the Roman mintings is the necessity to maintain trimmings military, As for this geographic zone, we remember that after victorious the third samnita war (298-290 BC), to the Romans the doors of southern Italy were opened to them, one very rich and civilized region, that Rome did not take in including in its expansionistic aim. One old hostility between lucanios and tarentinos it was revived indeed after Roman forces parked in the borders of this territory. In year 282 BC, tarentinos, conscious of the sights that the Romans had puttings in them, sank the Roman ships that were in front of the port of the city, of which the war took control inevitable. He is then comprehensible that the maintenance of military contingents in situ outside one of the reasons that they impelled to the emergent power Roman to coin a currency adapted to the local uses, and that could be accepted without too many difficulties by the population. She agrees to emphasize that the Roman currency, mainly in this first stage, follows the direction, already established in policy, of an organization who, avoiding the violent and radical changes, it persecutes a adjustment and an absorption of the local factors, carrying out the phenomenon that the historians designate with the name of romanización, and that without a doubt contributed to guarantee the prolonged stability of the dominion exerted by m Rome. The last Roman emission in Campania dates almost generally towards year 289 BC, and judging by the number of arrived units a we, it had enormous diffusion, that probably continued after the introduction of the denario: cuadrigado is, thus called because in him it appears a quadriga, shot of four horses in bottom, hooked to a car and used to celebrate triumphs or to dispute races, This type of currency presents/displays in reverso the Jupiter figure, with the symbols of the ray and the sceptre, in a quadriga to galope guided by the Victory. Under this iconography is the legend ROME, with letters in hollow or relief. The obverse of these currencies bifronte of a young person presents/displays the efigie. These emissions, always with value of didracma, dracmas or means is also known cuadrigados, similar to the superior numerario, but with the quadriga returned towards the left. Probably the cuadrigado one was created for commercial interchanges with the foreigner, since many of these currencies have been in Spain. Contemporary of the cuadrigado one, and very similar to him by the iconography of the obverse, it is the gold of the oath. The characteristic of these currencies, in addition to the metal in which they coined, is in the type represented in reverso. In an authentic scene, organized well within the limits of redondel, three soldiers move: one takes a pig to the sacrifice, that takes care to complete the other two, armed of lance and sword. In exergo, Rome. Probably cuadrigado or the gold of the oath makes reference to the victory of Sentinum, in the neighborhoods of Dressing room, the year 295 BC, against the samnitas. After this encounter, the itálica Peninsula stopped being a confused set of towns and to enemy States to each other, and it was arranged to become a solid political organization, with a complex organization, !>