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Emporia — modern Ampurias on the Catalan coast — was a Greek foundation that by the late Republic had developed into a hybrid Greco-Roman commercial center. The city struck its own bronze coinage during the chaotic decades of the civil wars, a period when Roman central authority over provincial minting was effectively suspended and local communities filled the gap. FAB 1271 falls within that window of civic monetary autonomy that largely closed once Augustus consolidated control after Actium.