ERCAVICA (Tarraconcusis) municipium. – A city of the Celtiberi, enumerated by Pliny among the towns attached to the convention of Caesar-Augusta (Saragozza), and classed by Livy among the nobler and more powerful class of civitates in that part of northern Spain. "It was situated near the River Gaudiela, in the neighbourhood of the modern Santaver." The coins of this place are imperial Latin, in second and third brass, struck under the respective reigns of Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula. On one of these issues, struck under Tiberius, the name ERCAVICA alone is inscribed; on those of Augustus and Caligula it is accompanied by the title of MVNicipium. It seems, (says Vailant, in Coloniis), to have been made a municipium about 180 B.C. Under Tiberius and Caligula its coins bear the names of the Duumvirs. The only types are an oak wreath encircling the name of the city; and a bull standing, the latter the usual symbol of a municipium. – See Akerman, Coins of Hispania, p.86.