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Abdera on the southeastern Iberian coast was a Phoenician foundation — its name deriving from the Semitic *'Abd-'Ashtart* — that retained its Punic cultural identity well into the Roman provincial period. These small bronzes were struck during a stretch when the town had ceased to matter much militarily but still needed a local fractional currency for everyday exchange. The ACIP and CNH references place this piece within a series that numismatists have long used to trace the persistence of Punic civic identity in Hispania long after Carthage itself had ceased to exist.