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| Issuer | Malaka |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Chusor-Ptah (the Phoenician deity syncretized with Hephaistos) facing right, wearing a distinctive pointed cap or pilos. A pair of tongs, the attribute of the divine craftsman, is visible behind the head. The facial features are rendered in a schematic Punic style, with bold, deeply struck relief characteristic of Malaka's civic bronze coinage. The flan is broad and irregular, with no visible legend in the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Malaka — modern Málaga — was a Phoenician foundation on the southern Iberian coast that maintained striking autonomy well into the period of Roman consolidation. Its bronze coinage, including this issue, drew on Punic religious and iconographic traditions at a time when most neighboring mints were rapidly Romanizing. The city's close commercial ties to North Africa kept that influence alive longer than geography alone would suggest.
Heiss 1 is the foundational reference for Malaka's coinage, catalogued in his 1870 Description générale des monnaies antiques de l'Espagne.