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Drachm
| Issuer | City of Arse-Saguntum (Edetani people) |
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| Year | 195 BC - 130 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate male head facing left, rendered in a Hellenistic style with curling hair bound by a laurel wreath. The portrait is youthful and clean-shaven, with finely modelled facial features characteristic of Ibero-Greek celator work of the period. A club appears over the right shoulder, an attribute associated with Herakles, alluding to the Herculean iconographic tradition common in Hispanic coinage. The field is plain, with no legend or inscription. The flan is slightly irregular at the rim, consistent with hammered coinage of this era. |
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| Reverse description | A man-headed bull, representing the local river deity, strides vigorously to the right in a dynamic, three-quarter pose with its forelegs raised. The head is bearded and clearly anthropomorphic, rendered in a style blending Iberian and Hellenistic artistic conventions. A six-pointed star or astral symbol appears in the upper left field above the bull's back. An Iberian legend in the Levantine semi-syllabic script runs along the lower portion of the field, identifying the issuing authority. The exergue is plain, and the flan edges are characteristic of hand-struck irregular flans. |
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| Mintage | ND (195 BC - 130 BC) ND (195 BC - 130 BC) |
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