Quadrans

Baelo Claudia, the Roman municipium on the southern Iberian coast near modern Tarifa, owed its prosperity almost entirely to garum production — the fermented fish sauce exported across the Mediterranean. This quadrans circulated during a period when the town was transitioning from a Phoenician trading post into a functioning Roman colonial economy, a process accelerated by the Social War and subsequent extensions of citizenship that reshaped municipal coinage authority throughout Hispania.

The ACIP 2481 attribution places this issue within the late Republican Hispanic series catalogued by Villaronga and Benages.