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.
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.