Ilerda


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Ilerda -a city of Hispania Tarraconensis, the capital of the Ilergetes, which by a slight transposition of letters, is now called Lerida, in Catalonia. -Under the Roman sway it bacame a municipium, as proved by a small brass coin of Augustus, inscribed MNV ILERDA with the type of a wolf walking.- See Akerman, "Coins of Ancient Cities, etc" p. 92, Pl. x., Nos. 1 - 5 for specimens of the Celtiberian and Latin brass of this municipium.

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