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| Issuer | Qart Hadasht |
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| Year | 50 BC - 30 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Standing male figure facing left, depicted in full length with arms extended, possibly holding or presenting objects, rendered in the Ibero-Roman civic style characteristic of late Punic colonial issues. Symbols appear in the fields to either side of the figure. The Latin inscription C V I N is distributed across the field, likely representing an abbreviation of the colonial municipality name, consistent with issues from the Carthago Nova region during the late Republican period. |
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| Reverse lettering | C V I N |
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Qart Hadasht — the Punic name meaning "New City," applied to the Carthaginian foundation on the Spanish coast known to Romans as Carthago Nova — continued issuing bronze coinage under this name well into the period of Roman provincial reorganization. By the mid-first century BC the city was firmly within Roman administrative orbit, yet retained enough civic autonomy to strike its own fractional bronze, a privilege that Rome extended selectively and often withdrew without ceremony.
ACIP 2531 places this semis within the final phase of the city's independent coinage before Carthago Nova transitioned fully into the Roman colonial mint framework under Augustus.