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Semis - Tiberius INS AVG 'YBSHM
| Issuer | Ebusus |
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| Year | 14-37 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The apotropaic deity Bes depicted standing facing, rendered frontally in the characteristic squat, leonine style. The figure holds a hammer in one hand and a serpent in the other, both attributes associated with protective and chthonic symbolism. The design is enclosed within a beaded border, with the bilingual legend distributed around the field in both Latin and Punic characters. |
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| Reverse lettering | INS AVG `YBSHM |
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Ebusus — modern Ibiza — was unusual among Balearic minting authorities in that it maintained an almost obsessive continuity of local religious imagery across centuries of Roman provincial coinage, long after neighboring mints had capitulated to purely imperial designs. This issue, struck under Tiberius, represents one of the later phases of that local tradition, when the island's mint was negotiating between Roman imperial authority and deeply entrenched Phoenician religious identity. The bilingual inscription itself — Latin alongside the Iberian script — reflects that tension directly.