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| Issuer | Abdera (Iberia) (Punic Iberia) |
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| Year | 90 BC - 40 BC |
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| Reference(s) | ACIP#879, CNH#6 |
| Obverse description | Bare male head facing right, rendered in a provincial Punic-Iberian style with naturalistic modeling of facial features. The effigy occupies the central field, depicted with short hair and a rounded jawline. The field surrounding the bust is plain and unadorned, with no legend or border inscription. The style reflects local Phoenician artistic conventions adapted to a western Mediterranean coinage tradition. |
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| Mintage | ND (90 BC - 40 BC) |
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Abdera on the Iberian coast — modern Adra in Andalusia — was a Phoenician foundation whose Punic cultural identity persisted stubbornly through Roman consolidation of Hispania. These bronzes were struck locally well after Rome had nominally absorbed the region, a quiet assertion of civic continuity by a community that retained its Semitic religious and commercial traditions longer than most of its neighbors along the Baetica coast.