53 | Celtiberian coins

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TAMUSIENS (Southwest area of the peninsula). As. (Ae. 28.66g / 32mm). 50 BC Anv: Male head to the right, in front of the dolphin, behind the Iberian letters TaM. Rev: Ship with rowers, above legend: TAMVSIENSI. (FAB-2263). XF. Very rare for this mint.

A ship with rowers on the reverse and a Latin writing on it with the name of Tamusia are the most outstanding characteristics of these Extremaduran coinage. Male head and the Iberian letters TaM on the obverse complete some certainly scarce coins. These mints are intermixed with others of the Celtibera spear rider type, which although the legend Tanusia could also refer to the same mint. The metric of its coins responds to the 25 gram pattern, and therefore, the metric of the Roman ace in use in the middle of the second century BC.