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Quadrans
| Issuer | Emporia, City of |
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| Year | 50 BC - 27 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A horse in full gallop facing right, depicted with naturalistic energy in a style consistent with Emporitan municipal bronzes of the late Republican era. The animal is rendered with fine detail in the legs and mane. Below or beside the horse, the abbreviated civic legend appears in the field, identifying the issuing city. |
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Emporia — modern Ampurias on the Catalan coast — was a Greek foundation that by the late Republic had fused into a bilingual Roman-Iberian municipality. This quadrans was struck during the awkward transitional decades after Caesar's settlement of Hispania, when dozens of local mints were still asserting civic identity through small bronze coinage before Augustus rationalized provincial currency production and effectively ended most of them.
The city's dual Greek and Latin magistracy is reflected in its coinage from this period, making even the minor denominations administratively interesting.