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Semis hippocampus, legend eterter
| Issuer | Untikesken gens |
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| Year | 170 BC - 150 BC |
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| Diameter | 20 mm |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, rendered in a robust, somewhat archaic provincial style. The helmet covers the skull and nape, with strands of hair visible beneath the brim. A spear or staff appears diagonally behind the head, partially overlapping the neck truncation. The field is plain and the flan is irregular, typical of Iberian bronze coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse script | Iberian (Levantine) |
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Untikesken — the Iberian name for the Greek colony of Emporion, modern Empúries on the Catalan coast — produced a substantial bronze coinage during the second century BC, largely to meet the practical demands created by Rome's military presence in Hispania following the Second Punic War. The semis denomination served day-to-day transactions in a bilingual commercial zone where Iberian, Greek, and Roman economic systems overlapped awkwardly and continuously.
The legend *eterter* remains only partially interpreted; it is understood as a secondary magistrate's or moneyer's name in Iberian script, a practice that distinguishes Untikesken bronzes from many contemporaneous Iberian issues and helps modern scholars sequence the series by authority rather than date alone.