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| Issuer | Carmo, City of |
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| Year | 120 BC - 100 BC |
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| Weight | 14.3 g |
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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 description | The civic legend CARMO is inscribed in large, bold Latin capitals across the centre of the field, flanked above and below by a pair of horizontal grain ears pointing to the right, their stalks and individual grains rendered in fine relief. The composition is symmetrical and unadorned, reflecting the austere epigraphic style typical of southern Iberian civic bronzes of the late 2nd century BC. No border or exergual line is present. |
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| Mint | Carmo (modern Carmona, Hispania Baetica) |
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