From Bilbilis, a pre-Augustan coin whose design was later also adopted by Augustus. That's why I found it interesting. All the attributions I've seen for examples of this coinage describe the obverse simply as male head. Any idea whose head it is? some deity, maybe Endovelico? a warrior fighting perhaps during the first punic war in Iberia? AE 27, Hispania Citerior, Bilbilis (Calatayud, Zaragoza), Late 2nd - Early 1st Century BC 14.32 g CNH 11; SNG France 864 Ob.: Male head to right wearing necklace, Iberian letters BI behind Rv.: Horseman galloping right holding lance, below Iberian legend BILBIN Please share your coins from Bilbilis or anything related Picture courtesy Ken Dorney:
I have a coin from Castulo from around the same time perion which describes the portrait as a "male head". Sorry. No answer for you. Just some guy.
Thought it might be Endovelico because I found some attributions in acsearch that call the male head Endovellico, e.g.: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5483688 Endovelicus is the best known of the pre-Roman Lusitanian and Celtiberian gods of the Iron Age. He was originally a chthonic god. He was the God/Lord of the Underworld and of health, prophecy and the earth, associated with vegetation and the afterlife. Later accepted by the Romans themselves, who assimilated it to Pluto or to Serapis and made him a relatively popular god. [quoted from Wikipedia]
