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Denarius
| Issuer | Turiasu, City of |
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| Year | 125 BC - 101 BC |
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| Weight | 3.9 g |
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| Obverse script | Iberian (Celtiberian) |
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| Mint | Turiasu |
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Turiasu — modern Tarazona in Aragon — was one of several Celtiberian mints granted the right to strike silver coinage during the Roman provincial reorganization of Hispania Citerior. This issue falls within the period following the Numantine War (133 BC), when Rome consolidated control over the Ebro valley and permitted indigenous cities to maintain local coinage, partly to facilitate troop pay and tax collection without shipping Roman silver into the interior.
The mint at Turiasu was unusually prolific by Celtiberian standards, producing more documented die varieties than most contemporary Iberian issues. The Iberian script legends on these coins remained in use here well into the first century BC, longer than at many comparable mints.