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As legend eba, with jug
| Issuer | Untikesken gens |
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| Year | 150 BC - 100 BC |
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| Currency | As (Roman pound system, 2nd century BC) |
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| Obverse lettering | eba |
| Reverse description | Pegasus in full gallop facing right, with wings prominently spread, rendered in a vigorous provincial style consistent with Ibero-Roman coinage of the 2nd century BC. A wreath appears above the figure in the upper field, and a palm leaf is positioned below, both serving as decorative or symbolic elements. The mint legend 'untikesken' in Iberian Levantine script runs along the lower portion of the field, identifying the issuing community of Untikesken (modern Empúries, Catalonia). |
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The Untikesken gens issued bronze coinage from Emporion — the Greek colonial city on the northeastern Iberian coast — during a period when the settlement was negotiating its identity under expanding Roman administrative pressure. The ACIP 1025 type belongs to a local Iberian-script series that borrowed heavily from Greek iconographic and monetary conventions while asserting a distinctly indigenous civic voice through the legend.
Emporion's unusual dual-city arrangement, with a Greek quarter and an adjacent Iberian town sharing the same walls, meant coinage here served populations with genuinely different monetary traditions. Bronze issues of this weight class were workhorses of local exchange rather than prestige pieces.