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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.