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½ Unit
| Issuer | Abariltur (Ilercavones people) |
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| Year | 160 BC - 100 BC |
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| Value | ½ Unit |
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| Obverse description | Bare male head facing right, rendered in the Ibero-Roman artistic tradition with curly hair falling in loose waves around the crown and nape. The facial features are boldly modeled with a prominent nose and strong jaw characteristic of Iberian coinage of the period. The Iberian inscription 'BAN' appears in the left field, incuse in the Levantine Iberian semi-syllabic script. The flan is irregular, and the relief is moderately worn but retains clear detail in the portrait. |
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| Obverse lettering | BAN |
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The Ilercavones occupied the lower Ebro valley, and their coinage — including this fractional issue — belongs to the broader phenomenon of Iberian bronze struck under Roman administrative pressure during the second century BC. Rome encouraged local minting not out of generosity but to ease the logistical burden of paying troops and collecting tribute across the peninsula. Abariltur remains only tentatively localized, with most scholarship placing it somewhere in the Tarraconensis region, though no secure archaeological identification of the mint site has been confirmed.