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| Issuer | Sisapo, City of |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Male head facing right, rendered in a somewhat provincial Ibero-Roman style with visible hair striations above the brow and behind the ear. The portrait displays a broad, rounded facial structure typical of late Republican Hispanic civic coinage. The field is plain, with no surrounding legend. The flan exhibits characteristic irregular edges and a green patina consistent with long burial, with moderate wear obscuring finer details of the portrait. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sisapo was the most productive cinnabar-mining district in the ancient world, located in what is now La Mancha, and its wealth was controlled under the Republic by a powerful Roman joint-stock company, the Societas Sisaponensis, mentioned by Cicero in his speeches against Verres. The city struck its own bronze coinage during the period of Roman provincial autonomy in Hispania, making these issues among the relatively small number of local Iberian bronzes tied directly to a named commercial monopoly.