There is a clear interplay with RIC 3a-c, denarii struck at Emerita http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=emerita+AND+fulltext%3A+curved+sword …pic.twitter.com/NccEJGhTec
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So you really do find the weapon-form *everywhere* and often with different cultural connotations. I mean, check out this one - what weapon is Bes here holding? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Bes_and_Beset-E_11138-IMG_8039-black.jpg …
I suppose then it's a situation where the meaning of the Falcata/Kopis weapon-type is going to vary quite a bit based on context too 
The one thing I think we can say is it tends to signal 'not Roman' because the Romans don't seem to have ever made much use of it.
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The most comprehensive discussion of the actual weapon (rather than representations of it) that I found was F. Quesada Sanz, El Armamento Iberico (1997), though his find distribution if Spain specific.
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Both Quesada Sanz (1997), 133ff and P.F. Stary, Zur Eisenzeitlichen Bewaffnung und Kampfesweise (1994), 119-20 suggest that what we're seeing is a Greek weapon type (the Kopis) that gets introduced everywhere, arrives in Italy in the 6th century and Spain in the 5th.
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