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¼ Unit
| Issuer | Abariltur (Ilercavones people) |
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| Year | 160 BC - 100 BC |
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| Currency | Unit (2nd century BC) |
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| Obverse script | Iberian (Levantine) |
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| Reverse description | Horse galloping vigorously to the right, depicted in a lively, energetic style typical of Iberian coinage of the period. The animal's legs are fully extended in full gallop, conveying motion. The Iberian legend ABARILTUR is inscribed around or below the horse, identifying the issuing mint, rendered in Levantine semi-syllabic Iberian script distributed across the field. |
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The Ilercavones occupied the lower Ebro valley, and their coinage — including this fractional piece — belongs to a broader Iberian monetary tradition that emerged under Roman administrative pressure following the Second Punic War. Rome encouraged indigenous mints across Hispania to produce bronze coinage partly to facilitate tax collection and troop payments, meaning many of these local issues functioned as much within Roman logistical networks as within native economies.
ACIP 2069 is among the less commonly encountered Ilercavonian fractions, with Abariltur itself remaining only partially identified as a mint site — its precise location within Ilercavonian territory is still debated.