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| Issuer | Ontikes gens |
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| Year | 150 BC - 101 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Mounted warrior galloping to the right, depicted in the characteristic Celtiberian equestrian style, bearing a spear held horizontally. A triskeles motif occupies the upper field above the horse. A retrograde Iberian legend appears in the exergue below the horse, reading the mint name in Celtiberian script. |
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| Reverse lettering | nTiKes |
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The Ontikes were an Iberian people settled in the northeastern Hispania Citerior region, and their bronze coinage belongs to a broader wave of indigenous mint activity that Roman administrative tolerance — and occasional encouragement — allowed to flourish during the second century BC. Rome found local bronze issues practically useful for small transactions in a province where Roman silver didn't always penetrate daily commerce.
ACIP 1693 is among the foundational references for this series, though the precise mint location for Ontikes remains unresolved in the scholarship.