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1 Triens Turms series IV
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 215 BC - 211 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Vecchi-IV#6, SambonArt#115 |
| Obverse description | Bare head of Turms (the Etruscan equivalent of Hermes/Mercury) facing right, rendered in a Hellenistic style with flowing wavy hair. A broad-brimmed petasus hat sits atop the head, adorned along its upper rim with a row of pellets serving as the value mark for the triens denomination. The portrait is executed with confident, lively engraving characteristic of Populonian bronze coinage of the late third century BC, with the neck truncation visible at the lower right of the field. |
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| Reverse description | Plain field divided by two horizontal lines, each terminating in a pair of pellets at either end, forming a pattern of value marks consistent with the triens (four pellets total arranged in groups). The Etruscan ethnic legend PVPLVNA is inscribed in retrograde Etruscan characters across the central band, reading from right to left. Four additional pellets appear in the lower portion of the field, reinforcing the denomination mark. The overall composition is austere and emblematic, typical of Populonian civic bronze coinage. |
| Reverse script | Etruscan |
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