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Bronze Unit
| Issuer | Ausesken gens |
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| Year | 170 BC - 150 BC |
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| Currency | Denarius (early 2nd century BC) |
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| Obverse description | Bare male head facing right, rendered in a robust Ibero-Hellenistic style with curly hair and a short beard; a mantle or chlamys is visible at the neck truncation. A palm frond is depicted behind the head in the left field, serving as a characteristic symbol of this Iberian mint. The facial features are boldly struck with pronounced brow and jaw, consistent with indigenous Iberian artistic conventions of the mid-2nd century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (170 BC - 150 BC) |
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The Ausesken were an Iberian people settled in the northeastern Hispania Tarraconensis region, and their bronze coinage belongs to a wave of local municipal issues that emerged as Roman administrative presence in the peninsula expanded following the Second Punic War. Rome generally tolerated — and at times encouraged — indigenous communities to strike their own small bronze for local exchange, provided silver remained a Roman monopoly. The Ausesken issues are relatively scarce compared to better-documented Iberian mints, and attribution relies heavily on the Iberian script legends that were only systematically decoded in the twentieth century.