Catalog
Quadrans
| Issuer | Gadir |
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| Year | 100 BC - 20 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | An eagle standing left with wings closed, its head turned back to the right, occupying the lower half of the field. Above the eagle, a Phoenician legend is inscribed in two or three characters reading right to left, framed by a continuous dotted border. The overall composition is typical of late Punic-Hispanic civic bronze coinage from Gadir. |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ CRVCEM : TVAM : ADORAMVS : |
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Gadir — modern Cádiz — was among the oldest Phoenician settlements in the western Mediterranean, and its coinage reflects a mint that operated largely outside Roman administrative control well into the late Republic. By the first century BC, the city's issues were serving a regional economy built on salted fish and the garum trade, not imperial tribute. The FAB 1356 quadrans falls within a period when Gadir was transitioning from autonomous civic coinage toward the municipalized issues that followed Caesar's reorganization of Hispania.