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The Ilergetes were among the most militarily significant of the Iberian peoples, having allied with Carthage under Indibilis and Mandonius during the Second Punic War before switching allegiance — twice — as Roman fortunes shifted. Their territory centered on the Segre valley, and Iltirta (modern Lleida) functioned as their principal urban and minting center. By the mid-second century, when this unit was struck, Rome had nominally pacified the peninsula, but Celtiberian resistance elsewhere kept the region politically unstable.

Iberian bronze coinage of this period was locally administered, not Roman-directed — a distinction that matters for understanding the type's circulation geography. These units moved within regional exchange networks, rarely straying far from Ilergetan territory.