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.
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.