Urso, a town in Hispania Baetica. It was the OURSWN of Strabo (Lib |III|), the ORSWNA of Appian (Bell. Hisp. 16), and the Urso of Pliny (Lib |III|), and wasa Roman colonia with the name Genua Urbanorum. Its modern name is Osuna. The following coins are attributed to it:
1. Obverse: VRSONE, laureate head of Augustus (?) to right. Reverse: L AP DEC Q (Lucius Appuleius Decimus Quaestor), winged sphinx, helmeted, walking to right; bronze AE 1 and AE 2.
2. Obverse: No legend, laureate head of Augustus (?) to right. Reverse: VRSONE L AP DEC Q, same sphinx; bronze AE 1 and AE 2.
3. Obverse: No legend, laureate head of Augustus (?) to right. Reverse: VRSONE, same sphinx; bronze AE 2.
4. Obverse: Q REDECAL, bare head of Augustus (?) to right. Reverse: VRSONE, sphinx walking to laft, two stars in the field; bronze AE 2.
5. Obverse: VRSONE, bare head of Augustus (?) to right. Reverse: No legend, a bear, standing, holding a wreath and a palm (?); bronze AE 2.
These coins are assigned by Alois Heiss (Mon. Ant. d'Espangne) to the time of Augustus, which is not quite certain. Number 4 is most probably not genuine.