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The Ilergetes were among the most politically significant Iberian peoples of the late Republic period — their leaders Indibilis and Mandonius had allied with Carthage during the Second Punic War, and the region around Iltirta (modern Lleida) remained a flashpoint for Roman pacification efforts well into the first century BC. This bronze unit belongs to a series produced across a span during which Rome progressively tightened administrative control over Hispania Citerior, and local Iberian minting was gradually suppressed.

Production likely ceased definitively during Sertorius's campaigns, when the Ilerda region saw sustained military activity through the 70s BC.