Téseras mineras del sureste hispano o nuevos cuadrantes de Carthago Nova

The aim of this paper is to organize for the first time an uncertain issue, which we definitely assign to the territory of Carthago Nova. The obverse depicts an aspergillum and the reverse a securis. The issue can be dated between the end of the 1st century BC and the beginning of the 1st century AD. In addition, unpublished coin finds confirm the suggested location. On the other hand, the nature of these bronze pieces is discussed. It seems more correct to interpret them as tesserae rather than as Carthago Nova’s quadrantes. The most convincing fact, although not definitive, is the absence of a magistrate in charge of the issue or even of the name of the colony itself, as in the form of an abbreviation – C(olonia) V(rbs) I(ulia) N(ova Carthago)– in the anonymous issue with Minerva and statue on a pedestal (RPC I 151)

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