Ilercavonia


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Ilercavonia, or Ilergavonia; a Roman municipium in Hispania Tarraconensis (now Amposta in Catalonia, near Tortosa.) It was the capital city of the Ilercaonenses, situated on the coast nearthe mouth of the Ebro. Its coins struck, in alliance with Dertosa, under Augustus, Agrippa, and Tiberius, bear on their reverses the legend M HI ILERCAVONIA DERT  -The type is a galley, with sail set. See Akerman. "Ancient Coins of Cities and Princes." p. 91.

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