Celsa, located on the Ebro in what is now Aragon, was one of the earliest Roman colonies established in Hispania and among a handful of provincial mints authorized to strike bronze under Augustus. The city's coins — including this as — were produced using locally supervised dies, which accounts for the considerable variation in execution across the known specimens catalogued under RPC I 273.
The colony lost its minting privilege sometime during the Augustan period itself, making the entire civic bronze output relatively compressed in date range.
Celsa, located on the Ebro in what is now Aragon, was one of the earliest Roman colonies established in Hispania and among a handful of provincial mints authorized to strike bronze under Augustus. The city's coins — including this as — were produced using locally supervised dies, which accounts for the considerable variation in execution across the known specimens catalogued under RPC I 273.
The colony lost its minting privilege sometime during the Augustan period itself, making the entire civic bronze output relatively compressed in date range.