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| 裏面の説明 | Incuse fish swimming to the right, depicted in characteristic Populonian style with the design sunk into the flan rather than raised. The fish is rendered in a naturalistic yet stylized manner, with body contour and fin details discernible within the incuse recess. The motif occupies the central field and is contained within a circular border, consistent with the broader Populonian incuse coinage tradition of the late third century BC. |
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| 縁 | Plain |
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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 bronze issue during a period of acute military pressure — the Second Punic War was grinding through central Italy, and Hannibal's campaigns had severely disrupted the economic networks of the peninsula. The fish type bronzes are among the later products of the Populonian mint, which had been striking since roughly the fourth century and was winding down by the close of this period.
The incuse technique — design sunk into the flan rather than raised — is an archaism unusual for this date and may reflect deliberate conservatism in a mint already operating at the margins of the Etruscan world.