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Emporia — modern Ampurias on the Catalan coast — was a Greek foundation that had operated as a dual city for centuries, with a Greco-Iberian population divided by a literal wall. By the late Republican period, Roman veterans settled there following Pompey's campaigns pushed the community toward full Romanization, and this bronze issue belongs to that transitional moment when the city was minting in Roman denominational terms while still drawing on Iberian civic traditions. The colonial settlement formalized under Augustus ultimately ended independent Emporitan coinage altogether.