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| Issuer | Erkauika, City of |
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| Year | 133 BC - 101 BC |
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| Value | 1 Unit |
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| Reverse description | Armored warrior on horseback galloping to the right, brandishing a lance or javelin horizontally in the right hand with a cloak billowing behind. The horse is depicted with vigorous, dynamic movement, its legs fully extended. Beneath the horse, in the exergue, appears the Iberian legend in Celtiberian script identifying the mint city Erkauika, rendered in a single line of characters above a ground line. |
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| Reverse lettering | erkauika |
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Erkauika was a pre-Roman Iberian city whose precise location remains disputed, though most scholarship places it somewhere in the Ebro valley region. These bronzes were struck during a period when indigenous Iberian communities retained limited autonomous minting rights under Roman provincial administration following the Gracchan reorganization of Hispania Citerior. The city disappears from the numismatic record entirely by the early first century BC, almost certainly absorbed into the broader Roman municipal framework as colonial consolidation tightened.