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1/4 Bronze Unit
| Issuer | Ausesken gens |
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| Year | 170 BC - 150 BC |
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| Currency | Denarius (early 2nd century BC) |
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| Obverse description | Draped male head facing right, rendered in a provincial Iberian artistic style with bold, somewhat stylized features. Three pellets arranged in a row are visible behind the head in the left field, serving as a value or workshop mark. The hair is depicted with a mantle or hood-like covering, consistent with Iberian indigenous coinage conventions of the period. The overall relief is moderately high, typical of hammered bronze issues of the northeastern Iberian peninsula. |
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| Reverse script | Iberian (Levantine) |
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The Ausesken were an Iberian people of the northeastern Hispanian interior, and their coinage was struck during a period when Roman administrative pressure was reshaping indigenous monetary practices across the peninsula. Following the campaigns of the early second century BC, local Iberian communities were permitted — sometimes effectively compelled — to produce their own fractional bronze coinage to facilitate tax payments and troop provisioning for Roman forces stationed in the region. This piece is a product of that arrangement rather than of independent civic pride.
CNH#7 places this among the earliest Ausesken issues.