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Semis INS AVG 'YBSHM
| Issuer | Ebusus |
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| Year | 14-41 |
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| Weight | 2.64 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Punic |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal figure of Bes standing with arms extended, grasping a hammer in one hand and a serpent in the other, closely mirroring the obverse type in composition and style. The squat, apotropaic figure is rendered in a bold, schematic manner typical of late Ebusitan bronze coinage. The bilingual legend INS AVG and the Punic toponym 'YBSHM appear in the field, affirming the island's civic identity under Augustus. |
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Ebusus — modern Ibiza — was unusual among Balearic communities in retaining its own civic coinage well into the Julio-Claudian period, long after most western provincial mints had been absorbed into the imperial system or simply shut down. The Punic-derived inscription on this semis reflects the island's Phoenician colonial heritage, which persisted in local epigraphy centuries after Carthage had ceased to exist as a political entity. Rome tolerated this arrangement; Ebusus posed no threat, and its mint served a genuinely local circulation need.
The RPC I 481 group is tied to the reign of Tiberius by the AVG title without the DIVVS AVGVSTVS attribution used posthumously.