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| Issuer | Untikesken gens (Indigetes people) |
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| Year | 150 BC - 100 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted female head facing right, rendered in a style blending Hellenistic and local Iberian artistic traditions. The helmet features a prominent crest and cheek guards clearly visible in the field. The effigy is depicted with naturalistic facial features, with flowing hair visible beneath the helmet. The flan is irregular and slightly uneven, typical of Ibero-Roman hammered bronze coinage of the 2nd century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Untikesken issues were struck at Emporion — the Greek colonial foundation on the Catalan coast later known as Empúries — where Iberian and Hellenic monetary traditions overlapped for centuries. By the late second century BC, Rome's consolidation of Hispania Citerior was reshaping local minting authority, and many indigenous issues from this period were functionally subordinate to Roman administrative needs rather than expressions of autonomous civic coinage.
ACIP 1027 sits among the smaller fractional bronzes of the Indigetes, a people whose territory Rome had used as its primary bridgehead into the peninsula since 218 BC.