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Obulco — modern Porcuna in Jaén province — was one of the few cities in Hispania Ulterior permitted to strike its own bronze coinage under Roman oversight following the Punic Wars. The city's mint was unusually prolific for a provincial Iberian town, and its issues circulated widely across the upper Guadalquivir valley. The legends on Obulco's coinage are bilingual, appearing in both Latin and Iberian script, reflecting the contested administrative identity of a community that was neither fully Roman nor fully native during the period of active Romanization.