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Celt-Iberian, Obulco, Hispania Ulterior, Mid 2nd Century B.C.
Obulco, a Roman municipium of Hispania Baetica (Andalusia), now called Porcuna, a town of some note between Cordova and Gienna. Its coins which are autonomous, bear for their types generally a female head, sometimes a horseman, at others a bull, and the word OBVLCO, with the names of Toman duumvirs, and Celtiberian inscriptions. Hispania is the Latin term given to the Iberian peninsula. Hispania Ulterior (Further Hispania) was a region of Hispania during the Roman Republic, roughly located in Baetica and in the Guadalquivir valley of modern Spain and extending to all of Lusitania (modern Portugal, Extremadura and a small part of Salamanca province) and Gallaecia (modern Northern Portugal and Galicia). Its capital was Corduba.
CE13724. Bronze AE 39, Villaronga-Benages 2196 (R3), Villaronga CNH 19, SNG BM 1430 - 1433, Alvarez-Burgos 1791, SNG Lorichs 458 ff., F/VF, small edge cracks, Obulco mint, weight 19.120g, maximum diameter 39.3mm, die axis 90o, mid 2nd century B.C.; obverse diademed Celticized head right, OBVLCO right; reverse Iberian legend: Urkailtu / Neseltuko (magistrates' names), horizontal line above and below each name, plow above, X on right over head of grain left below; SOLD
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