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¼ Unit
| Issuer | Cessetani people |
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| Year | 100 BC - 40 BC |
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| Value | ¼ Unit |
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| Reverse description | Forepart of a winged horse (Pegasus) bounding to the right, the wings raised and the forelegs extended in a galloping posture. Below the forepart, a Iberian legend in Levantine semi-syllabic script occupies the lower field, serving as the ethnic identifier of the issuing Cessetani mint at Tarraco. The design is boldly conceived but summarily executed, consistent with the utilitarian bronze fractional coinage of Hispania Citerior during the late Republican era. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 40 BC) |
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The Cessetani were an Iberian people centered around the ancient city of Kesse — present-day Tarragona — whose regional bronze coinage circulated during a period when Roman administrative control over Hispania Citerior was tightening considerably. These fractional bronzes functioned within a hybrid monetary environment where indigenous issues coexisted uneasily with Roman currency, gradually displaced rather than abruptly abolished.
CNH#170 places this piece among the later Cessetani emissions, likely post-Sertorian War, when Roman reorganization of Iberian civic life accelerated the extinction of autonomous local coinage.