Main Mint: Roma, Albi

West-central Italy, in the Apennines, this part of Italy was home to the Romans. The history of Latium is the history of Rome, at least after the first issues of coinage. The last independant cities were conquered in the 320s, long before any Italian city not a Greek colony began to issue coinage.

Albi, in Latium, was founded, according to legend, by Aeneas who found there the Greeat Sow with thirty piglets under a holm-oak, and thought the place to be fertile for colonization by his heroes.

St. Paul wrote the epistle to the Romans when the early Christian church was established there. St. Peter founded the Papacy in Rome.