1/4 Bronze Unit

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.