Sextans horse

The Untikesken gens — the Iberian community at Emporion, the Greek colonial settlement on the northeastern Iberian coast — began striking their own bronze coinage in the second century BC as Roman administrative presence in Hispania intensified following the Second Punic War. These fractional bronzes circulated alongside the denarii of Roman military pay, filling the gap in small transaction currency that Rome's own mints showed little interest in supplying locally. The sextans denomination places this piece within a Roman-influenced fractional system the community adopted, though the execution remained distinctly local.