47 | Celtiberian coins

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SAITI (Xátiva, Valencia). As. (Ae. 28.78g / 33mm). 120-20 BC Anv: Male head to the right, behind scepter. Rev: Rider with palm to the right, below Iberian legend: SAITi. (FAB-2097). VF. Retouched.

Its location south of Júcar frames it within the Contestania and with certain cultural and social similarities with edetanos and bastetanos. Numismatically speaking, it is a mint that mints a great variety of types and units, from a primitive didracma to a common copper coin with a head on the front and a horseman with a palm on the back. It is common, for the aces, the gradual decrease in weight over the years; Thus we go from some first pieces that are around 31 grams, about 205 BC to units of 28 grams about 150 BC until reaching 20 grams in the middle of the 1st century BC.