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Quadrans AED CAL SEX NIG
| Issuer | Celsa |
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| Year | 44 BC - 36 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | A boar striding to the right occupies the central field, rendered in a simple but stylistically typical Iberian provincial manner. The surface is worn and patinated, consistent with circulation use during the late Republican period. The Latin colonial legend C V I L appears in the field, likely referencing the Colonia Victrix Iulia Lepida, the official name of Celsa. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Celsa — the Roman colony of Lepida, later renamed Celsa, founded on the Ebro in modern Aragon — issued bronze fractions under a rotating system of local magistrates whose abbreviated names appear on the coinage. The three names here, AED CAL SEX NIG, identify aediles responsible for the issue, a practice that tied civic accountability directly to the minting process in ways Roman colonial administration actively encouraged.
ACIP 1500 places this among the earliest colonial bronze issues from the Ebro valley, struck within a decade of the colony's formal establishment by Lepidus around 44 BC.