2nd Punic War - which sword?

[Duncan Head]

I neither have Miks nor Polybios at hand at the moment but apparently Polybios fr. 179 says that the "Spanish Sword" was introduced during the Punic wars.

After, surely? Or at least, after the second war:

"The Celtiberians excel the rest of the world in the construction of their swords; for their point is strong and serviceable, and they can deliver a cut with both edges. Wherefore the Romans abandoned their ancestral swords after the Hannibalian war and adopted those of the Iberians. They adopted, I say, the construction of the swords, but they can by no means imitate the excellence of the steel or the other points in which they are so elaborately finished."
(from Perseus, italics mine)