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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 lettering | BAN |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.