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The Cessetani were an Iberian people centered around modern Tarragona — known in antiquity as Kesse — whose bronze fractional coinage reflects the monetization of indigenous Iberian communities under increasing Roman administrative pressure during the second century BC. These small bronzes circulated alongside Roman Republican issues in the provincial economy that developed rapidly after the conclusion of the Second Punic War left Rome in firm control of Hispania Citerior.

The ACIP cataloguing project, completed by Villaronga and Benages in 2011, finally brought systematic organization to these previously scattered Iberian civic issues. CNH#168 cross-references Villaronga's earlier 1994 corpus.