Catalog
Semis
| Issuer | Cunbaria |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bare male head facing right, rendered in a stylized Ibero-Roman artistic manner with hair indicated by incised lines swept back from the brow. The letter S appears in the field, serving as a value mark denoting the semis denomination. The flan is irregular, characteristic of Iberian struck bronze coinage of the late Republican period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Cunbaria was a small Iberian settlement in the Guadalquivir valley whose civic coinage was issued during the period of intensifying Roman administrative consolidation in Hispania Ulterior. The attribution to this mint rests primarily on find-spot concentrations and comparative epigraphy — the Iberian script legends have been linked to the regional writing conventions of the middle Baetis basin. The semis denomination itself reflects deliberate adoption of Roman monetary structure by indigenous communities, a process that accelerated sharply after the Sertorian War ended in 72 BC.