CONNECTION, NOT AN IBERIAN PIECE · EPILOGUE · ROMAN CONQUEST

Denarius of Carisius

Rome minted the defeat of its adversaries

A Roman coin depicts weapons from Hispania as trophies of victory.

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History and context

Publius Carisius issued coinage in Emerita Augusta after the northern wars. The reverse shows indigenous arms alongside a shield: objects previously used by peninsular communities were reorganised as signs of Roman victory.

The coin does not neutrally describe the defeated. It is portable propaganda, paid, circulated and repeated a version of the conflict. The entry ‘Coin XXXX’ in the received material is consolidated here because it appears to describe this same issue, not a second piece.

Evidence and interpretation

Documented fact: issuer, mint, metal, date and coin iconography are identifiable through numismatic corpora. Interpretation and caution: linking each weapon to an exact people or reading the propagandistic image as a neutral ethnographic inventory would be excessive.

Catalogue facts

Narrative date: ≈25–23 BCE
Location: Emerita Augusta (Mérida)
Material: Silver denarius
Context: Monetary propaganda after the conquest · Roman epilogue
Classification: Comparative connection · must not be presented as an Iberian piece
Visual reference: Numismatic corpus of Augusta Emerita · issues of Publius Carisius
In this grouping: Coin with victory propaganda and depicted arms, not preserved weaponry.

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Objects connected through time

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Denarius of Carisius

Iberians

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Current record

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Coins

The archer in gold · Type introduced from the late 6th century; specimen from the 4th century BCE. · Achaemenid Persia
Yan knife-money in the Gojoseon sphere · 4th–3rd centuries BCE · Ancient China
Treasure of Cheste · Jewellery from the 4th–3rd centuries BCE; concealment at the end of the 3rd century BCE. · Iberians
A coin with the memory of a blade · 323–222 BCE · Gojoseon and early Korea
Denarius of Carisius · ≈25–23 BCE · Iberians — You are viewing
Kilwa coin · 1482–1493 · Bantu-speaking worlds

Writing

Naqada labels · ca. 3300–3100 BCE · Ancient Egypt
Ivory tablets · c. 3100–2900 BCE · Ancient Egypt
Jemdet Nasr · c. 3100–2900 BCE · Sumer
Account of malt and barley · c. 3100–2900 BCE · Sumer
Before the Hittites · c. 19th century BCE · Hittites
Plimpton 322 · Paleo-Babylonian period · around 1800 BCE · Sumer
Sumerian King List · Towards 1800 BCE · Sumer
Stele of Hammurabi · Towards 1750 BCE · Sumer
Love song to Shu-Sin · Paleo-Babylonian copy, around 1900–1600 BCE according to CDLI · Sumer
Si.427 tablet · Towards 1900–1600 BCE · paleobabylonian; uncertain chronological attribution in CDLI · Sumer
Phaistos Disc · ≈1700–1650 BCE · Greek worlds
Sumerian Flood of Nippur · Towards 1650 BCE · Sumer
Linear A · c. 1700–1500 BCE · Greek worlds
Boğazköy Archive · Above all 17th–13th centuries BCE · Hittites
Linear B · c. 1375 BCE · Greek worlds
Alaksandu of Wilusa · c. 1300 BCE · Hittites
Treaty with Egypt · c. 1259 BCE, year 21 of Ramesses II · Hittites
The voice of Ahiram · c. 11th–10th century BCE · Phoenicians
Flood Tablet · 7th century BCE · Sumer
Babylonian map of the world · Towards 700–500 BCE · Sumer
Uni was also Astarte · Towards 510 BCE · Etruscans and Rome
Rations for women and children · Towards 509–493 BCE · Achaemenid Persia
Ezerovo Ring · 5th century BCE · chronology discussed in the bibliography · Thracians
The archer in gold · Type introduced from the late 6th century; specimen from the 4th century BCE. · Achaemenid Persia
The inscription of Pistiros · 4th century BCE · Thracians
Derveni Papyrus · copy conserved towards 340–320 BCE; comments on a previous text. · Thracians
Lead tablet · 4th–3rd centuries BCE · Iberians
Hand of Irulegui · First third of the 1st century BCE · Iberians
Denarius of Carisius · ≈25–23 BCE · Iberians — You are viewing
Betatun altar · 1st century BCE–1st century CE · Iberians
The date of 292 · 292 CE · Maya worlds
Venus in the codex · Preserved manuscript: Postclassic, probably 13th–14th centuries; earlier knowledge · Maya worlds
Catalan Atlas · after 1375 and before November 1380 · Mande Worlds
Bamum document · 28 April 1922 · Bantu-speaking worlds
Eleven articles · Adopted April–May 2022; public portal 2025 · Batwa / Twa histories

Without a comparable date (not part of the chronological order):

49 Classical Voices · Authors and traditions between the 6th century BCE and 4th century CE · Iberians
Cyrus speaks as king of Babylon · After the conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE · Achaemenid Persia
Indian Ocean Kiswahili · from the first millennium CE; major development in medieval and modern times · Bantu-speaking worlds
Oracle bones · from ca. 1200 BCE · Ancient China
The cost of transcription · 19th century–current digital edition · San histories
Translating faith · 16th–18th centuries · Bantu-speaking worlds
Voices from outside · Fifth century BCE–Late Antiquity · Garamantes
Writing with gaps · Diverse chronologies · Garamantes
Zalmoxis · testimony of Herodotus, 5th century BCE; no biographical date of the divinity. · Thracians

Kingship and power

Narmer Palette · ca. 3100 BCE · Ancient Egypt
Puabi headdress · ca. 2600–2450 BCE · Sumer
Ur-Nanshe relief · Mid-3rd millennium BCE · reign of Ur-Nanshe · Sumer
Stele of the Vultures · Towards 2450–2425 BCE · Sumer
Akkadian sovereign head · Akkadian period · 23rd century BCE · Sumer
Naram-Sin Stele · Reign of Naram-Sin, 2254–2218 BCE · Sumer
Sumerian King List · Towards 1800 BCE · Sumer
Stele of Hammurabi · Towards 1750 BCE · Sumer
Grave Circle A and Chrysolakkos · 18th–16th centuries BCE · Greek worlds
Burial at K IV · circa 1750–1550 BCE · Nubia, Kerma and Kush
Tutankhamun's grave goods · death towards 1323 BCE · Ancient Egypt
Fu Hao’s burial goods · ca. 1200 BCE · Ancient China
Tribute to Assyria · c. 848 BCE · Phoenicians
Black Obelisk · 825 BCE · Sumer
Lamassu of Khorsabad · Reign of Sargon II · 721–705 BCE · Sumer
Kushite king · c. 721–664 BCE · Nubia, Kerma and Kush
Stele of Esarhaddon · 7th century BC C. · 671 campaign BCE · Sumer
Ashurbanipal Hunt · 645–635 BCE · Sumer
Ishtar Gate · 7th–6th centuries BCE · work of Nebuchadnezzar II · Sumer
Twenty-three delegations · 6th–5th centuries BCE, mainly under Darius and Xerxes · Achaemenid Persia
Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar · first quarter of the 5th century BCE · Phoenicians
The archer in gold · Type introduced from the late 6th century; specimen from the 4th century BCE. · Achaemenid Persia
Susa grave goods · c. 350 BCE · Achaemenid Persia
Golyamata Kosmatka · End of the 4th century – beginning of the 3rd century BCE; ritual burial at the beginning of the III according to Iskra. · Thracians
Denarius of Carisius · ≈25–23 BCE · Iberians — You are viewing
The date of 292 · 292 CE · Maya worlds
Pakal’s grave goods · sealed on 28 August 683 CE · Maya worlds
Catalan Atlas · after 1375 and before November 1380 · Mande Worlds
Kuba ndop · ca. 1760 · Bantu-speaking worlds

Without a comparable date (not part of the chronological order):

Before Persia · Central core c. seventeenth century BCE; Neo-Elamite additions between the ninth and sixth centuries BCE · Achaemenid Persia
Cyrus speaks as king of Babylon · After the conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE · Achaemenid Persia
Rome learns in terracotta · End of the sixth century BCE · Etruscans and Rome
The Banquet of Seuthes II · Towards 400 BCE. Anabasis episode · Thracians

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: September 5, 2026.

Follow the workshop via the dies

Die links allow relating coins that share the same portrait or reverse engraved, although they may have been preserved separately. The study of the Rompesparteñas denarius compares several examples of Carisius and shows changes in combination as the tools were replaced due to wear. It also suggests that some workshops may have moved with the army: it is not demonstrated that all the coinage was already minted in Emerita. Findings in Gaulish hoards, such as Bourgueil, expand the map of circulation. The silver destined for military payment could accompany troops outside Hispania.

Research · David Martínez Chico · A denarius of Publius Carisius found at the Rompesparteñas site (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia)Access recorded: September 5, 2026.

Where it is held

National Museum of Roman Art

Item or group in the record · Documented collection

CER.ES · inventory CE31655.

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Sources and references

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Denarius of Carisius

History and context

Evidence and interpretation

Catalogue facts

Objects connected through time

Denarius of Carisius

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Denarius of Carisius

A closer look

Follow the workshop via the dies

Where it is held

National Museum of Roman Art

Sources and references

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