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| Issuer | Ventipo |
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| Year | 175 BC - 126 BC |
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| Currency | As (second half of the 2nd century BC) |
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| Obverse description | Bare male head in right profile, wearing a plain close-fitting helmet with a pronounced neck guard and cheek pieces, rendered in a bold Iberian provincial style. The facial features are strongly modelled, with a well-defined nose, chin, and earring visible below the helmet rim. The field is plain and uninscribed, with no legend present. The portrait occupies the central field and is surrounded by a broad, slightly irregular flan edge consistent with hand-struck bronze coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ventipo was a small Iberian town in the conventus Hispalensis — modern Antequera district in Andalusia — whose autonomous bronze coinage reflects the fragmented municipal issuing activity Rome tolerated, and occasionally encouraged, in Hispania Ulterior during the second century BC. The town's issues are rare enough that the SNG corpus entries remain the primary reference points for die comparisons, with no substantial hoard context to clarify the precise chronological sequence within the type.