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| 背面描述 | Plain, unworked reverse presenting a broad, flat incuse surface with no deliberate design, typical of early Etruscan hammered coinage produced using a single obverse die struck against a plain punch. The surface shows the characteristic granular texture and irregular contours resulting from the hammering technique. No legend, symbol, or device is present. |
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| 铸币厂 | Populonia |
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Populonia was the only Etruscan city to strike its own coinage directly — every other major Etruscan center relied on imported or Greek-made currency. This tridrachm belongs to the earliest phase of that mint, produced when Populonia's iron-smelting economy was at its peak, processing ore shipped from Elba across the short channel separating the island from the Tyrrhenian coast.
The chimera type is among the most frequently cited of the Beast series in the major reference collections, yet actual surviving specimens are genuinely scarce. The Vecchi and HN Italy concordance places this issue firmly in the archaic phase before Populonia's weight standard began drifting toward lighter denominations around mid-century.