½ Unit

The Cessetani occupied the coastal territory around modern Tarragona — Kese to ancient sources — and began striking their own bronze coinage under the watchful pressure of Roman administrative consolidation following the Second Punic War. These fractional issues were not prestige objects; they were working coins for a population being rapidly integrated into Roman economic networks, and the denominations reflect local purchasing habits rather than Roman metrological ideals.

The ACIP classification places this piece within a tightly defined series spanning roughly a quarter century of Cessetani civic output before Rome's progressive standardization made autonomous Iberian civic coinage increasingly redundant.