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¼ Unit
| Issuer | City of Arse-Saguntum (Edetani people) |
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| Year | 195 BC - 130 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A dolphin swimming to the right, rendered in a stylized Ibero-Punic artistic manner, occupying the central field. The dolphin's arched body, prominent dorsal fin, and bifurcated tail are clearly delineated. Surrounding the dolphin are several Iberian (Levantine semi-syllabic) script characters, constituting a partial or abbreviated legend of the mint city Arse, distributed across the field. The overall composition is typical of the small bronze fractional coinage struck at the Arse-Saguntum mint during the second century BC. |
| Reverse script | Iberian (Levantine) |
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Saguntum's coinage is inseparable from the diplomatic crisis that triggered the Second Punic War. The city's alliance with Rome — and Hannibal's siege of it in 219 BC — gave both powers their legal pretext for conflict. By the time this quarter-unit was struck, Saguntum had been rebuilt under Roman patronage and was reasserting itself as a functioning municipal economy, issuing a bilingual coinage that navigated the political reality of Iberian identity within an increasingly Roman Mediterranean world.
The Edetani attribution places this issue within the broader northeastern Iberian minting tradition, where indigenous bronze fractions served local market exchange long after Roman denarii dominated inter-regional trade.