The coins issued by the Italian allies, Marsi, Peligni, Picentini, Vestini,
Samnites, Frentani, Malrucini, and Lucani, during their last struggle for
independence against Rome, can only be briefly mentioned in the present
work. They consist chiefly of silver coins of the weight of the contem-
porary Roman denarius, and they are thought to have been issued from
the mints of Corfinium and Aesernia. The heads on the obverses are
usually impersonations of Italia as a helmeted goddess, substituted for
the head of Roma, and accompanied by her name in Latin or in Oscan
characters, ITALIA or 
. The inscr., some in Oscan, some in
Latin characters, often record the names of the chief leaders of the
Revolt: Q. Silo, C. Papius Mutilus, with his title 
(= Im-
perator), Numerius Lucius (?), and others. There is also in the Paris
Collection a unique gold stater of Attic weight, Obv. Head of young
Dionysos, Rev. Cista mystica and thyrsos, bearing an Oscan legend
. (= Minatius Jegius, Minatii f. ?), but the authenticity of