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Sextans boar
| Issuer | Untikesken gens |
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| Year | 170 BC - 150 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, rendered in the local Iberian interpretation of Greco-Roman iconographic tradition. The helmet is of Corinthian type, with details visible despite the characteristic flat relief and irregular flan of hammered provincial coinage. The effigy occupies the central field, with surfaces showing typical patination consistent with bronze issues of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Untikesken gens — the Iberian community at Emporion, modern Empúries on the Catalan coast — operated a mint in close proximity to the Greek colonial settlement of Emporion, and their bronze fractions were struck to facilitate small-denomination exchange in a market town that was simultaneously Iberian, Greek, and increasingly Roman in its commercial orbit. The sextans was the smallest practical subdivision in this local bronze coinage hierarchy.
ACIP 1021 is among the more difficult fractions to attribute with confidence in hand, given the die wear common to this denomination.