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| Issuer | Abdera (Iberia) (Punic Iberia) |
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| Year | 120 BC - 90 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Melqart facing right, rendered in the Punic artistic tradition with naturalistic but somewhat stylized features. The portrait occupies the central field of the flan, with the hair depicted in wavy locks falling behind the neck. No legend or border is present on this side. The coin shows characteristic irregular flan shape and surface patination consistent with hammered bronze coinage of Punic Iberia. |
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| Reverse lettering | 𐤏𐤁𐤃𐤓𐤕 |
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Abdera on the Iberian coast — modern Adra in Almería — was a Phoenician foundation, and its coinage reflects that origin long after Carthaginian political power had collapsed in the west. Issues like this one continued using Punic script and iconographic conventions well into the late second century BC, decades after Rome had reorganized the peninsula into provincial administration. The city's relative autonomy in monetary matters was typical of Rome's early accommodationist policy toward cooperative Phoenician settlements along the southern coast.
ACIP 869 belongs to a series attributed to Abdera's later municipal issues, struck as the city navigated the transition between Punic civic identity and increasing Roman cultural pressure.