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| Issuer | Iltirta |
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| Year | 200 BC - 151 BC |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse description | Mounted horseman galloping to the right, wearing a chlamys (military mantle) billowing behind him and holding a palm branch in his raised right hand. The horse is depicted in full stride with dynamic, naturalistic rendering typical of Iberian coinage. Below the horse, the mint name appears in Iberian script along the lower field. The composition closely follows the standard reverse type adopted by multiple Iberian mints and derives from Hellenistic equestrian iconography. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Iltirta was an Iberian city in the northeastern peninsula, roughly corresponding to modern Lleida, and its bronze coinage was struck under the broad umbrella of Roman Republican influence following the Second Punic War — Rome having wrested the region from Carthaginian control after 206 BC. The city retained enough administrative autonomy to issue its own fractional bronze well into the mid-second century, a privilege Rome extended selectively across Hispania Citerior as a tool of economic integration rather than pure conquest.
The as denomination placed this squarely in circulation alongside Roman-allied issues, facilitating local market exchange in the Ebro valley.