Quinarius

The Cessetani were an Iberian people occupying the coastal territory around modern Tarragona — Kesse in ancient sources — and their adoption of the quinarius format in the early second century BC was a direct response to Roman monetary penetration following the Second Punic War. Roman forces had used the Iberian peninsula as a primary theater of operations, and indigenous communities under increasing Roman administrative pressure began minting in Roman denominational systems to facilitate taxation and troop payment, not out of cultural alignment.

The ACIP 1125 attribution places this piece within a well-documented Cessetani sequence, though the precise chronology between 195 and 170 BC remains debated among Iberian numismatists.