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1 Didrachm Without legend

Issuer Vulci
Year 375 BC - 350 BC
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Shape Round (irregular)
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (375 BC - 350 BC) - Only 5 examples known
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Vulci was among the wealthiest Etruscan cities of the fourth century BC, its prosperity built on bronze-working and a Mediterranean trade network that reached Carthage and the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia. That commercial reach made the need for a silver coinage practical rather than ceremonial. The absence of any legend is characteristic of early Etruscan silver and reflects a civic identity communicated through image alone — writing on coinage was a Greek habit Etruria adopted only gradually.

The references here align this piece with the earliest stratum of Vulcian silver production, with Vecchi's corpus treating it as a foundational type for the city's output.