Gades (Cadiz), Spain - (Celtic, Punic) Quadrans 100-20 BCE 

• -80 
• Carthage 

  + 1

  Celtic coins
• Quadrans 
• Ancient Greece after 146 BC. 

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Coins

Gades (Cadiz), Spain - (Celtic, Punic) Quadrans 100-20 BCE

Carthage, Celtic coins

-80

2.4

Alvarez Burgos 1063a

Obv: Dolphin, trident and punic legend Rev: Herakles (Hercules), behind club Cádiz, regarded by many as the oldest continuously inhabited city in Western Europe, with archaeological remains dating to 3100 years was founded by the Phoenicians. The city fell under the sway of Carthage during Hamilcar's Iberian campaign after the First Punic War. Cádiz became a depot for Hannibal's conquest of southern Iberia, and he sacrificed there to Hercules/Melqart before setting off on his famous journey in 218 BC to cross the Alps and invade Italy. Later the city fell to Romans under Scipio Africanus in 206 BC. Under the Roman Republic and Empire, the city flourished as a port and naval base known as Gades. Suetonius relates how Julius Caesar, when visiting Gades as a quaestor (junior senator) saw a statue of Alexander the Great there and was saddened to think that he himself, though the same age, had still achieved nothing memorable. The people of Gades had an alliance with Rome and Julius Caesar bestowed Roman citizenship on all its inhabitants in 49 BC. By the time of Augustus's census, Cádiz was home to more than five hundred equites (members of the wealthy upper class), a concentration rivaled only by Patavium (Padua) and Rome itself. It was the principal city of the Roman colony of Augusta Urbs Julia Gaditana. An aqueduct provided fresh water to the town (the island's supply was notoriously bad), running across open sea for its last leg.