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The Urkesken gens was among the Iberian tribal communities of the northeastern peninsula whose coinage emerged under the administrative pressure of Roman occupation following the Second Punic War. Rome generally permitted indigenous bronze issues to continue circulating at the local level, provided silver coinage — which it controlled — remained the instrument of broader commerce. The Urkesken mint has not been precisely located, though epigraphic and archaeological evidence places it somewhere in the modern Catalonia region.

CNH#1 designates this as the primary type in the series, suggesting it represents the earliest or most canonical emission of the gens.