Major mints: Arpi, Caelia, Teate, Venusia.

A district of southeastern Italy, part of Magna Graecia although never settled by the Greeks. Its inhabitants were Samnites and other related tribes, who during the fourth century BC fell under the influence of Taras.

The district was conquered by the Romans in the twenties and teens of the fourth century, and the major cites began to issue coinage shortly thereafter. The coinage is typically Greek-inspired, with Oscan inscriptions. This came to an end after many of the Apulian towns supported Hannibal; what the Romans did not destroy, the enormous flocks of sheep later introduced did,