Quadrans

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.