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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.