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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.