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100 Centesimae Incuse series: hippocamp
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 211 BC - 201 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head in right profile, rendered in a refined archaic Greek style, wearing a laurel wreath; the hair is depicted in short, closely cropped waves beneath the wreath. The bust is set within a plain circular border, with the field unadorned. The modelling of the beard, facial features, and drapery at the truncation reflects the accomplished engraving tradition of Populonian bronze coinage of the late third century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (211 BC - 201 BC) |
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Populonia, the only Etruscan city known to have struck its own coinage directly from locally smelted iron-ore slag, produced this heavy bronze series during a period of acute military pressure — the Second Punic War placed enormous logistical demands on allied and semi-independent Italian communities alike. The hippocamp series belongs to the final, heaviest phase of Populonian bronze production before the denomination structure collapsed under Roman monetary consolidation.
At over 36 grams, this piece represents the unreduced standard. The incuse technique, recessing the type into the flan rather than raising it, is a hallmark of archaic Etruscan coinage practice surviving well past its Mediterranean fashion.