Brundisium in Calabria, 200-89 BC., Æ Quadrans, BMC 22-3.
Brundisium (Brindisi) in Calabria, circa 200-89 BC.,
Æ Quadrans (17-18 mm / 2,90 g), second reduced series,
Obv.: head of Poseidon right; below, value mark: three pellets; [behind, Nike above trident?].
Rev.: BRVN, youth on dolphin riding left, holding wreath-bearing Nike in right hand, cithara in left; below, value mark: three pellets.
BMC 1., 154, 22-3 ; SNG Vol: X 244 (John Morcom Collection) = SNGuk_1000_0244 .
http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Calabria_map/Brundisium_map/Brundisium.html .
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.