Quadrans

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.