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⅛ Unit
| Issuer | City of Arse-Saguntum (Edetani people) |
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| Year | 195 BC - 130 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm (first half of the 2nd century BC) |
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| Reverse description | A dolphin swimming to the left, depicted in profile with an arched body, prominent dorsal fin, and bifurcated tail flukes rendered in the summary style typical of small Iberian bronze fractions. The figure occupies the center of the flan and is accompanied by a brief Iberian Levantine inscription, though the legend is poorly preserved on most specimens. No border or exergual line is present. |
| Reverse script | Iberian (Levantine) |
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Saguntum's loyalty to Rome during the Second Punic War — the city endured an eight-month Carthaginian siege in 219 BC rather than surrender, triggering the conflict itself — earned it a privileged status that allowed the continuation of local coinage production well into the Roman provincial period. These fractional bronzes circulated in a community that had effectively chosen its own destruction over betrayal of a Roman alliance, decades before Rome formalized such arrangements elsewhere in Hispania.