Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
As legend etaban
| Issuer | Untikesken gens |
|---|---|
| Year | 170 BC - 150 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena in right profile, rendered in high relief with bold, somewhat provincial style characteristic of Iberian workshop production. The goddess wears a crested Attic-style helmet with cheek guards clearly delineated. Hair curls emerge beneath the helmet bowl, and the neck and chin are rendered with confident modeling. An Iberian legend in semi-cursive script appears to the right of the effigy in the field. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Pegasus, the winged horse, depicted in right-facing gallop with outstretched wings raised above the body, rendered in a vigorous, dynamic style typical of Iberian bronze coinage of the 2nd century BC. The musculature and wing feathering are summarily but effectively rendered. An Iberian legend in Levantine semi-syllabic script is placed below the figure in the exergual area. The overall composition closely follows Greco-Roman iconographic conventions adapted by local Iberian die-cutters. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Untikesken — the Iberian name for the settlement the Romans called Emporiae — was a genuinely unusual place: a Greek colonial town that had grown physically adjacent to a native Iberian settlement, the two communities sharing a wall and, eventually, a mint. The bronze coinage issued here in the mid-second century BC reflects that hybrid civic identity, produced at a moment when Roman military presence in Hispania was intensifying following the campaigns against the Celtiberian and Lusitanian confederacies.
The *as* denomination follows the Roman libral weight standard, a deliberate alignment with the occupying power's monetary system.