Æ Semis Imitation of the Roman Republic

Imitative bronzes of this type were produced across the Iberian peninsula during Rome's gradual absorption of Hispania, a process punctuated by the Sertorian War of the 80s–70s BC — the most plausible window for many of these pieces. Local mints, some never identified, struck semis-weight coins closely modeled on Roman Republican types, likely to facilitate taxation, troop pay, or market exchange in regions where Roman coinage remained scarce but Roman administrative expectations were already in force. Attribution to CNH#5 places this among a loose cluster of imitative issues that scholars have struggled to assign with confidence for decades.