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As legend luki eba
| Issuer | Untikesken gens |
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| Year | 72 BC - 25 BC |
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| Currency | As (Roman pound system, 2nd century BC) |
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| Obverse lettering | luki eba |
| Reverse description | Pegasus advancing to the right with wings raised, rendered in the Hellenistic tradition common to Iberian coinage of this period. A wreath appears above the winged horse, and a bull is depicted to the right. The Iberian legend 'untikesken' is inscribed below a horizontal line in the exergue, identifying the issuing city of Untikesken (Emporion region). The design reflects strong Greek artistic influence on local Iberian mint production. |
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The Untikesken gens — the Iberian name for the population centered at Emporion, the Greek colonial foundation on the northeastern Catalan coast — began striking their own bronze issues as Roman administrative pressure reshaped the monetary geography of Hispania Citerior. The legends on these coins are written in the northeastern Iberian script, one of the better-documented but still only partially understood semi-syllabic writing systems of pre-Roman Iberia.
The dating range spans the final decades of the Roman Republic through the Augustan settlement, a period during which indigenous Iberian minting rights were progressively curtailed and then extinguished.