__NOTOC__ Sexi ( xpu, 𐤑‬𐤊‬𐤑‬, ), also known as Ex, was a Phoenician colony at the present-day site of Almuñécar on southeastern Spain's Mediterranean coast. The Roman name for the place was . Alternative transcriptions of the Phoenician name of the city in Latin include and .

History

The ancient Phoenician settlement, whose earliest phases are unclear, was located southwest of the Solorius Mons (the modern

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mountain range). From the 3rd-2nd centuriesBC it issued a sizable corpus of coinage, with many coins depicting the Phoenico-Punic god

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on the obverse and one or two fish on the reverse, possibly alluding to the abundance of the sea and also a principal product of the area. The '' Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World'' equates ancient Sexi with modern Almuñécar.Richard J. A. Talbert et al (2000). ''Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World'' Princeton University Press. Map 27, B5.

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