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Sextans head of horse
| Issuer | Untikesken gens |
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| Year | 170 BC - 150 BC |
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| Weight | 2.7 g |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic tradition adapted by Iberian die-cutters. Two pellets, serving as the value mark for the sextans denomination, are positioned to the left of the effigy. The helmet is of Corinthian type, and the facial features, though worn, retain a compact, provincial stylistic character. The flan is irregular and the strike is somewhat off-center, consistent with hammered bronze issues of this period. |
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| Obverse script | Iberian (Levantine) |
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The Untikesken — the Iberian people centered at Emporion (modern Empúries, on the Catalan coast) — minted bronze fractions alongside their silver coinage during the second century BC, a period when Roman military presence in Hispania was intensifying following the campaigns against Carthage. This sextans falls within that production window, issued by a community that had maintained unusually close commercial ties with Greek Massalia for generations before Rome's arrival changed the political calculus entirely.
The fabric of these small bronzes is notoriously inconsistent across the series, with flan preparation varying considerably between issues catalogued in ACIP.