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Semis

Issuer Baicipo
Year 100 BC - 1 BC
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Weight 6.28 g
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Reverse description A palm leaf or palm branch oriented pointing to the right, depicted in low relief at the center of the field, a symbol commonly associated with Ibero-Phoenician cultural influence in the region. The ethnic legend BAICIP is inscribed in Latin characters, distributed around or below the central device. The flan is irregular with an uneven, worn surface typical of provincial Iberian hammered bronze coinage.
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Baicipo was a small municipium in Hispania Baetica, its exact location debated but generally placed near the Guadalquivir valley. Like many Iberian towns granted limited civic status under Roman influence, it issued bronze fractions primarily to meet local transactional demand that Roman colonial coinage wasn't supplying at small denominations. The semis, half an as, was a workhorse of that gap.

ACIP 2507 is among the rarer Baiciponian types; the corpus is thin and die studies remain incomplete.

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