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Semis legend iskerbeles iltirarker
| Issuer | Untikesken gens |
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| Year | 150 BC - 100 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Male head in right profile, likely a local deity or heroic effigy, rendered in a Hellenistic-influenced provincial style characteristic of Iberian bronze coinage of the 2nd century BC. The hair is depicted in wavy locks falling behind the neck, and facial features are boldly if somewhat crudely engraved. The Iberian legend 'iltirarker' appears in the field, written in the northeastern Iberian semi-syllabic script. The overall style reflects the blending of indigenous Iberian artistic traditions with Hellenistic iconographic conventions. |
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| Obverse lettering | iltirarker |
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Untikesken coinage belongs to the Iberian script monetary tradition of the northeastern Hispanian minting communities, most active during the Roman Republican presence in the peninsula following the Second Punic War. The legend iskerbeles iltirarker identifies this piece within a specific magistrate-name formula — a naming convention shared across several Iberian mints but rendered here in the distinctive orthography associated with Untikesken, a settlement tentatively located in the region of modern Ampurias.
The semis denomination points to deliberate alignment with Roman fractional coinage norms, a practical accommodation to the mixed economy of soldiers, traders, and locals operating along the Via Domitia corridor.