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| Issuer | Carmo, City of |
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| Year | 120 BC - 100 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Heracles in right profile, clad in the Nemean lion's skin headdress, the scalp covering the crown and rendered with coarse, stylized mane striations extending to the left of the field. The facial features are boldly modelled in a provincial Iberian style, with a prominent brow and strong jaw. The reverse of the lion's pelt is visible behind the neck, characteristic of the Herculean type widely adopted by Hispanian civic mints during the late Republican period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Carmo — modern Carmona, in the Guadalquivir valley — was among the most heavily Romanized of the Iberian towns during the late Republican period, yet continued striking its own bronze coinage well into the first century BC. This issue falls within the phase when local magistrates, operating under Roman administrative tolerance, authorized municipal bronzes to meet everyday transactional demand that Roman issues simply could not satisfy at the regional level. The ACIP and CNH attributions place it within a reasonably well-documented but still incompletely sequenced series.