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| Issuer | Labini |
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| Year | 200 BC - 151 BC |
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| Reference(s) | ACIP#2302, CNH#1 |
| Obverse description | Male head facing right, rendered in a local Iberian artistic style within a beaded border. The portrait, likely a deity or heroic figure, displays coarse but expressive die engraving characteristic of southern Iberian coinage of the early 2nd century BC. The field shows significant patination consistent with the bronze fabric and age of the piece. |
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| Reverse description | Sphinx striding to the right, depicted with outstretched wings and feline body in a style typical of Iberian colonial coinage influenced by Punic and Hellenistic artistic traditions. A Meridional Iberian legend appears in the lower exergual area beneath the sphinx figure. The overall composition is enclosed within a broad flat field, with the die engraving showing the characteristic roughness of local Iberian workshop production. |
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| Additional information |
Labini was a small Iberian mint whose output remains poorly understood — the attribution itself has been contested, with some scholars placing production closer to the Ebro valley than the traditional Layetani territory assignment suggests. The ACIP classification anchors it, but the CNH concordance leaves the issuing authority genuinely ambiguous.