Ancient Iberian Coinage - Museo Prehistoria

settlements exerted a powerful attraction on the provincial coinages
and could even prompt some issues by virtue of their benefit on
the part of the city or of their citizens, because the bronze coinages
optimized the use of silver coins and favoured the exchanges.
The end of civic coinages
From the reigns of Caligula/Claudius I on, the coinages of the Roman
cities of Spain ceased. This end must be connected to the western
imperial context, to which Hispania belonged, and must be viewed
from a wider perspective that includes the western part of the
Empire, which was immersed in a trend towards the unification of
the Roman monetary system, in which civic bronze coinages were
progressively replaced by Imperial ones.
Diverse hypotheses have tried to explain the end of the minting in
Spain, by means of political reasons, of economic weakness of the
cities or preference for the Imperial coinages; nevertheless, none of
them seems completely satisfactory by itself. With the end of the
Roman provincial coinages during the reign of Claudius I, one of the
most important public symbols of the cities disappeared and thereby
concluding five hundred years of civic coinages. Henceforth, all the
coinages used in Spain came from the Imperial mints.
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Claudius I
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