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Semis AED L CAL SEX NIG
| Issuer | Celsa |
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| Year | 44 BC - 36 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A sheep or ram standing to the right, depicted in profile with the body rendered in moderate relief on an irregular flan typical of provincial hammered coinage. A horizontal ground line runs beneath the animal. The Latin magistrates' names appear as the legend AED L CAL SEX NIG below the ground line, identifying the aediles Lucius Calpurnius and Sextus Niger responsible for the issue. A dotted border frames the design. |
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Celsa — Roman Lepida to the colonists who refounded it around 44 BC — was planted on the Ebro as a loyalist outpost in the aftermath of Caesar's civil wars. The magistrates named on this semis, including the duoviri whose abbreviated names appear in the legend, served in the earliest phases of the colony's operation, when establishing a recognizable Roman coinage was itself a political act of consolidation in a region that had backed the losing side at Munda.
The FITA corpus places this piece within a tightly sequenced emission, and cross-referencing RPC I#266 with die studies suggests a relatively limited production run.