Octans

Gadir — modern Cádiz — was among the oldest Phoenician foundations in the western Mediterranean, and its autonomous bronze issues persisted well into the Roman provincial period through sheer commercial inertia. The octans, representing one-eighth of an as, was the lowest practical denomination the city struck, circulating primarily in local market transactions as Roman monetary integration steadily eroded the relevance of Punic civic coinage.

Production likely ceased around the Augustan reorganization of Hispanian coinage, when Gadir was refounded as the Roman municipium Augusta Urbs Julia Gaditana.