The Cessetani were an Iberian people settled in the coastal region around modern Tarragona — known in antiquity as Kese — whose bronze coinage formed part of a broader wave of indigenous Iberian minting activity that accelerated under Roman administrative pressure following the Second Punic War. Rome's demand for locally produced small change to facilitate taxation and troop payments effectively pushed Iberian communities into systematic coin production whether they had prior minting traditions or not.
The half-unit fraction within this series is notably scarcer than the full unit, suggesting limited demand for the denomination in daily exchange.
The Cessetani were an Iberian people settled in the coastal region around modern Tarragona — known in antiquity as Kese — whose bronze coinage formed part of a broader wave of indigenous Iberian minting activity that accelerated under Roman administrative pressure following the Second Punic War. Rome's demand for locally produced small change to facilitate taxation and troop payments effectively pushed Iberian communities into systematic coin production whether they had prior minting traditions or not.
The half-unit fraction within this series is notably scarcer than the full unit, suggesting limited demand for the denomination in daily exchange.