Oh, really interesting - the second coin's reverse is presumably a spear (or dagger?) a caetra and a falcata. The first coin has the dagger and falcata. I wonder if the design between them is meant to be a stylized caetra viewed from behind with the two lines being the handle?
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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.
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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Thank you so much! this is really helpful. I'm also glad to hear others also think is reads as 'non-Roman'
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