Ancient Iberian Coinage - Museo Prehistoria

Designs
During the 2nd-1st centuries BC,
the native populations had quite an
autonomous development, in which
they adapted the coinage concept
to their idiosyncrasies. The native
issues took on Greek-Hellenistic
iconographical figures from diverse
origins that by their repeated use
became characteristic icons of
a series of mints or regions (e.g.
corn ears, Hercules, sphinx, bull,
horseman). The few connections of
the designs and the ideology of the
Hispanic coinages with the Roman
cultural world could be explained
by the autonomy that the Hispanic
communities enjoyed, since Rome
did not yet have a standardized
iconography of cultural symbols.
Castulo
2nd century BC
Unit
Seks
2nd century BC
Unit
Arse-Saguntum
2nd century BC
Drachm
32