It began to mint coins perhaps in the 4th century BC, but its peak activity was at the end of the 3rd century BC with the rule of the barkic dynasty. He minted hemidrachmas, quarters and eighths of tracing under Punic pattern, and then semiases. He continued to mint in imperial times until Claudius. Bes, which means initiate, was a deity of ancient Egypt, whose worship spread throughout the Mediterranean. ½ Calc Coin minted at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. Obverse: Head of “Melkart” (Hercules) played with its usual attributes: lion's skin and mace on the left shoulder. Reverse: two tuna swimming to the left. Between the tails letter “aleph”. Phoenician legend at the top mp'l and 'gdr on the bottom. EBUSUS (Ibiza), “the island of Bes”, was colonized by the Punic Diodorus Sículo in 654 BC, although, apparently, a Phoenician settlement existed a century earlier. Sículo called it Pitiusa because it was covered with pine trees.