¼ Unit

The Cessetani were an Iberian people occupying the coastal territory around what is now Tarragona, a city the Romans called Tarraco and developed into the administrative capital of Hispania Citerior. Their bronze fractional coinage was produced during a period of accelerating Romanization following the Second Punic War, when indigenous mints across the Iberian Peninsula were permitted — and sometimes quietly encouraged — to strike small denomination bronzes to ease the chronic shortage of low-value currency in provincial circulation. The quarter unit sits at the bottom of the Cessetani denomination hierarchy, struck in quantities that suggest local market use rather than any tributary function.