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Triens
| Issuer | Baesuri gens |
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| Year | 72 BC - 40 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A tuna fish depicted in profile facing left, rendered in a schematic but recognizable manner typical of the fishing-community coinage of the Baesuri region in southern Hispania. The fish is shown with fins and tail clearly articulated in low relief against a plain field. A dotted border is partially visible around the periphery of the flan. The reverse field is otherwise uninscribed, with the tuna motif serving as the primary type, reflecting the economic importance of the tunny fisheries to the issuing community. |
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The Baesuri were a pre-Roman people of southwestern Hispania, concentrated in the territory around modern Tavira in Portugal. Their coinage in lead — unusual even among Iberian peripheral issues — points to a community operating well outside the mainstream of Roman provincial monetary organization, likely producing fractional pieces to fill a local exchange gap that official copper issues weren't reaching.
The date range spans the final turbulent decades of Republican control in Hispania, including the Sertorian War's aftermath.