Semis

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Descrizione del rovescio	Horse galloping to the left, depicted in a dynamic posture characteristic of Iberian coinage of the period, recalling similar equestrian types found on contemporary Hispanic issues. A Latin inscription appears above the horse, while a Libyan-Phoenician legend is placed below, reflecting the bilingual character of the issuing community of Oba. The reverse composition is typical of southern Iberian municipal bronzes struck under Roman influence during the late 1st century BC.
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Bordo	Plain
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Informazioni aggiuntive	Oba was a Hispano-Roman mint of uncertain precise location, though most scholarship places it somewhere in the conventus Hispalensis in Baetica. The semis denomination here follows the Roman fractional system adopted by indigenous Iberian mints during the late Republican period, when Rome allowed allied and subject communities to strike their own bronze for local circulation while silver remained a Roman monopoly. Exactly when within that century-long span this piece was struck is unresolved — the dating range reflects the limits of die study rather than any anchored historical event.