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Unit
| Issuer | Arkailikos gens |
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| Year | 133 BC - 101 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | US (Translation: Uxama) |
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| Reverse lettering | ARKaILIKoS (Translation: Argaela) |
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The Arkailikos coinage belongs to the pre-Roman indigenous issues of the Iberian Peninsula, struck by one of the lesser-documented Celtiberian communities during a period when Rome was consolidating control over Hispania following the Numantine War of 133 BC. These bronzes circulated in a region where Roman denarii and local imitations coexisted uneasily, and the gens-level attribution reflects tribal or clan-based minting authority rather than any civic or colonial structure recognizable in Roman terms.
ACIP 1810 is catalogued among the rarer Celtiberian issues, with surviving specimens concentrated almost entirely in Iberian excavation contexts.