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Bronze Unit
| Issuer | Ursone, City of |
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| Year | 150 BC - 100 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena (or a local deity assimilated to Athena) facing left, wearing a crested Corinthian-style helmet. The facial features are rendered in a somewhat provincial Hellenistic style. The legend VRSONE appears in Latin characters divided around the portrait, reading in segments to the left and right of the effigy. The overall style reflects the Iberian-Roman cultural milieu of the late 2nd century BC. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Ursone — modern Osuna, in Andalusia — was a significant Iberian settlement that came under Roman administrative influence during the second century BC, though it retained enough autonomy to produce its own civic bronze coinage. The ACIP and CNH references place this piece within a well-documented but numerically limited series of Hispano-Roman municipal issues from the region. Struck during a period when Roman military presence in Hispania Ulterior was consolidating after the Celtiberian Wars, local bronzes like this served the practical needs of a population operating between two monetary systems.
CNH 5A is among the earlier attributions in the Ursone sequence, suggesting production closer to the 150 BC end of the date range.