Gadir — modern Cádiz — was among the oldest Phoenician settlements in the western Mediterranean, founded around 1100 BC according to ancient sources. By the first century BC the city retained enough autonomous identity to strike its own bronze coinage even under Roman dominance, a privilege extended to cooperative provincial cities. The FAB 1339 attribution places this piece within a well-documented sequence of late Gaditan civic issues that ceased entirely once Augustus consolidated provincial administration.
Gadir — modern Cádiz — was among the oldest Phoenician settlements in the western Mediterranean, founded around 1100 BC according to ancient sources. By the first century BC the city retained enough autonomous identity to strike its own bronze coinage even under Roman dominance, a privilege extended to cooperative provincial cities. The FAB 1339 attribution places this piece within a well-documented sequence of late Gaditan civic issues that ceased entirely once Augustus consolidated provincial administration.