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| Issuer | Ontikes gens |
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| Year | 150 BC - 101 BC |
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| Value | 1 Unit |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head facing right, rendered in a stylized Ibero-Celtic manner, with prominent curly hair. A dolphin appears in the left field and a plow in the right field, both serving as identifying symbols of the Ontikes mint authority. |
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| Reverse script | Iberian (Celtiberian) |
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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.