Struck in the latter days of Thurium’s prosperity, and to a greater extent relevance in regional politics, this coin certainly bore witness to a dying city. Over the preceding decades, not only were the citizens of Thurium forced to cope with repeated Lucanian raids into their territory, but they were soon overshadowed both militarily and economically by their other neighbors the Bruttians. it is quite interesting though, that as Noe and Regling both discussed, despite the city’s continued decline it’s distaters slowly increased in weight. As this particular coin belongs to Noe’s “H” class, it is close to the end (Noe finishes his cataloguing with class N) and at 15.96 grams is relatively heavy. This flies in the face of conventional wisdom, which suggests that as states decline their coinage usually becomes ever more debased and lightened. All that being said, Noe is not shy at all in pointing out the “degeneration” in style of the series. Starting after group H, Noe notes the engravers “slovenliness” as well as their inconsistent and “deplorable” work.