Brundisium in Calabria, 200-89 BC., Æ Semis, BMC 10.
Brundisium (Brindisi) in Calabria, circa 200-89 BC.,
Æ Semis (19-21 mm / 6,09 g), second reduced series,
Obv.: S , beneath laureate head of Poseidon right; trident [and wreath-bearing Nike] behind.
Rev.: S / BRVN, youth on dolphin left, [S behind], holding wreath-bearing Nike in right hand, cithara in left.
BMC 1., 155, 10 ; SNG ANS 785 ; Hist. Num. Italy 749 .
Brundisium had been of Messapian origin, the Bentesion of the Greeks and the Brundisium of the Latins.
It was colonized 245 BC by the Romans and used as a naval base in the Second Punic war during 218-201 BC.