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| Issuer | Baesuri gens |
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| Year | 72 BC - 40 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A schematic depiction of a vessel or boat rendered in low relief, facing left, occupying the central field of the flan. The design is executed in a bold, simplified style characteristic of provincial Hispanic lead coinage. The Latin inscription BAES appears in the lower field, identifying the issuing community of Baesuri. The coin exhibits a heavily weathered surface with irregular flan edges consistent with hand-casting or crude hammering. |
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| Mintage | ND (72 BC - 40 BC) |
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The Baesuri were a pre-Roman people of southwestern Hispania, concentrated in the territory around modern Tavira in Portugal. Their coinage in lead — unusual even among Iberian peripheral issues — points to a community operating well outside the mainstream of Roman provincial monetary organization, likely producing fractional pieces to fill a local exchange gap that official copper issues weren't reaching.
The date range spans the final turbulent decades of Republican control in Hispania, including the Sertorian War's aftermath.