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Drachm
| Issuer | City of Arse-Saguntum (Edetani people) |
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| Year | 195 BC - 130 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm (first half of the 2nd century BC) |
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| Obverse description | Diademed male head facing right, rendered in a Hellenistic style strongly influenced by Greek coinage prototypes, likely derived from types of Demetrios I or similar Hellenistic rulers. The diadem is visible above the brow, with hair swept back in loose locks. The portrait is boldly struck in high relief on an irregular flan, with the facial features showing characteristic local Iberian die-cutting workmanship. |
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| Reverse description | A bearded man-headed bull (river god) walking to the right, depicted in a style derived from southern Italian and Sicilian Greek coinage. An Iberian legend in Levantine semi-syllabic script appears above the figure in the upper field, reading the mint name of Arse. The type closely follows the man-headed bull motif of Campanian and Sicilian prototypes, adapted by local Edetanian engravers, with the bull's body rendered in profile and the bearded human head turned frontally. |
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| Reverse lettering | 𐁙𐁛𐀭𐀸 |
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