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Acinipo, perched on a mesa above what is now Ronda la Vieja in the Málaga province, was one of the more assertive Turdetani communities in asserting civic identity through coinage during Rome's consolidation of Hispania Ulterior. The city struck in its own name rather than adopting Roman monetary forms outright — a posture shared by only a handful of southern Iberian towns during this period of accelerating Roman administrative pressure.

The broad date range assigned to this type reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty about Acinipo's precise minting sequence, not careless cataloguing.