Bolskan was an Iberian city located in the territory of the Vescetani (an Iberian tribe) in north-eastern

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

about 65 km north of the

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. It was on the site that is now occupied by the city of

Huesca Huesca (; ) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon between 1096 and 1118. It is also the capital of the Spanish Huesca (province), ...

, in the

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. The territory occupied by the Vescetani was destroyed by Roman Praetor Gaius Terentius Varro in 179 BC, which saw the refoundation of the once-Iberian city, with the new name of Osca. Bolskan is famous for its ancient mint, and its abundant coins include an issue that includes an unidentified bearded male facing right on the obverse and a horseman carrying a spear and the name of the city in an Iberian inscription on the reverse. The coins of Bolskan changed in 37 BC, when the city was refounded as Osca. They now include the Latin inscriptions OSCA on the obverse and DOM. COS. ITER. IMP on the reverse, which were Denarii in denomination. The coins of both Bolskan and Osca are found within the Iberian coin collections of the British Museum See Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (SNG) Vol IX The British Museum 2. Spain.

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