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| Issuer | Cessetani people |
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| Year | 150 BC - 100 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Mounted horseman advancing to the right, depicted in a dynamic pose atop a galloping horse with all four legs extended. The rider raises a palm branch in his outstretched right hand, a motif emblematic of Iberian bronze coinage of the second century BC. An Iberian legend in the Levantine semi-syllabic script appears in the field, identifying the issuing authority. The composition is characteristic of the Cessetani series attributed to the mint at Tarraco. |
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| Mint | Tarraco, Hispania, modern-day Tarragona, Spain |
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The Cessetani occupied the coastal territory around modern Tarragona — Kese in ancient sources — and were among the Iberian peoples who adopted the practice of civic bronze coinage under Roman provincial influence during the second century BC. Their issues circulated within a regional economy increasingly drawn into Rome's orbit following the conclusion of the Second Punic War, when Roman administrative presence in Hispania Citerior became permanent.
ACIP 1179 falls within a well-documented Cessetanian series, catalogued in Leandre Villaronga's foundational CNH corpus.