Quadrans

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.