Emporiae


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EMPORIAE Tarraconensis (Hispaniae), municipium, now Ampurias. 

The coins of this town are Greek autonomes in silver and bronze with Cetiberian and Latin inscriptions.  The obverses have for the most part a galeated head, and the Latin legends of reverse are EMPOR, or EMPORI, with the type of a Pegasus, sometimes the head of Minerva, a lion walking, a hippocampus, a bull, a bust of Diana.--See Mionnet, Suppt. i. 82:  see also Akerman, Coins of Hispania, p. 86.

No imperial or colonial money was struck by this Spanish municipium. 


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