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| Issuer | Alaun, City of |
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| Year | 120 BC - 80 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Mounted horseman galloping to the right, the rider depicted with curly hair and holding what appears to be a lance or palm branch; the horse shown in full stride with all four legs extended. Below the horse, in the exergue, appears the Iberian legend in Levantine script identifying the mint city of Alaun. A dolphin or similar device may appear before the horse's forelegs. The composition follows the standard Ibero-Roman horseman type common to the northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the late Republican period. |
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| Reverse lettering | alaun |
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Alaun was a pre-Roman Iberian settlement in the middle Ebro valley, and its bronze coinage was struck during a period when indigenous communities across Hispania were navigating Roman administrative pressure following the Punic Wars. The right to strike local bronze — while Rome controlled silver — was a practical concession, allowing regional economies to manage small transactions without Roman mint intervention.
ACIP 1471 is among the less frequently encountered Alavonese types. The CNH reference places it within a tightly defined regional group of Iberian script coinages whose attribution was debated for decades before epigraphy confirmed the civic identity.