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| 正面描述 | A hare in full stride leaping to the right, rendered in high relief with naturalistic detail; the animal's elongated body, extended forelimbs, and powerful haunches are clearly articulated. The figure occupies the central field of the flan, set within a shallow incuse depression characteristic of early Etruscan coinage from Populonia. The style is archaic, emphasizing fluid motion and compact form typical of the so-called Beast series. The surrounding field is plain and unadorned, with no legend or inscription. |
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| 边缘 | Plain |
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Populonia, an Etruscan city on the Tyrrhenian coast of northern Italy, was the only Etruscan settlement known to have minted its own coinage — most Etruscan communities relied on traded or imitated Greek issues. This hare series belongs to the earliest phase of Populonian silver, a period when the city's control of iron ore deposits from the island of Elba was generating enough commercial activity to warrant a local monetary issue. The hare as a type appears across multiple Etruscan cultural objects and likely carried symbolic rather than purely decorative weight within that tradition.