Venusia, a city of Apulia, captured by the Roman consul L. Postumius in 262 BC, and shortly afterwards made a Roman colony, a rank which i held under the empire. Cicero had a villa there, and it was the birth place of Horace. The following coins are attributed to Venusia:
- Aes grave. Libral system; As, quincunx, triens, quadrans, sextans, uncia. Uncertain system; sextans without and with monogram VE, uncertain denominations with mono. VE.
- Struck coins. Triental system; quadrans without mono., sextans, uncia and semuncia with mono. VE. Sextantal and Uncial systems; nummus, quincunx, quadrans, sextans, and sescuncia with mono. VE.
See Talent for the Roman pound or Libra used under Libral system.