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| 表面の説明 | Helmeted head of Minerva (Menerva) in profile facing right, rendered in relief with fine archaic detail. The helmet features a plain bowl and neck guard characteristic of Etruscan military iconography. The numeral XXV appears in the field to the right of the effigy, denoting the denomination of 25 centesimae. The portrait is executed in a bold, slightly archaic Etruscan style with strong linear features. |
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| 表面の銘文 | XXV (Translation: 25) |
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| 追加情報 |
Populonia, the only Etruscan city known to have struck its own coinage directly from locally smelted ore, produced this bronze during the final decade of the Second Punic War — a period when Roman allied communities across the Italian peninsula were under acute pressure to fund military operations. The dolphin series bronzes are distinguished by their incuse reverse technique, a striking method more archaic than the city's own earlier silver issues and likely a deliberate local convention rather than a technical limitation.
Vecchi IV.31 is among the rarer dolphin-series denominations to survive with readable surfaces, partly because Populonian bronzes circulated hard in coastal trading contexts.