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Denarius

Issuer Arsaos
Year 133 BC - 72 BC
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Value 1 Denarius
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Obverse description Bearded male head facing right, rendered in the Ibero-Roman artistic tradition, with hair arranged in two distinct layered tiers of curls. A dolphin appears as a secondary symbol to the right of the head, and a plow is depicted to the left, both serving as characteristic mint control marks in the field.
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Arsaos was one of several semi-autonomous Iberian minting authorities operating in the northeastern Ebro valley under Roman oversight following the Second Punic War. The precise identification of Arsaos with a modern location remains unresolved — candidates include sites in Navarre — which has complicated the attribution history of this series for over a century. The long emission window reflects sustained Roman tolerance of indigenous silver coinage in Hispania Citerior during a period when Rome had not yet imposed full monetary uniformity on the peninsula.