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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.