1/2 Unit Trotting horse

The Cessetani were an Iberian people occupying territory around modern Tarragona — Kese in ancient sources — whose bronze coinage circulated during a period of intensifying Roman administrative pressure following the Second Punic War. These fractional issues were struck not by a Roman authority but by the Cessetani themselves, part of a broader pattern of indigenous Iberian mints producing their own bronze under nominal Roman oversight. The half-unit denomination is distinguished from the full unit primarily by weight reduction rather than a redesigned type.