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Gold 25 Asses Female head series II: facing right, value right
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 211 BC - 206 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Plain, flat reverse with no deliberate design, exhibiting only the incuse impression resulting from the hammering process. The surface shows tool marks and irregular striations consistent with the anvil side of a hammered flan. This uninscribed reverse is characteristic of the Female Head series gold issues of Populonia, where all iconographic and denominational information was confined to the obverse die. |
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| Mintage | ND (211 BC - 206 BC) |
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Populonia, the only Etruscan city known to have struck its own coinage directly from local ore smelted on-site, produced this denomination during a period when Rome's catastrophic losses at Cannae in 216 BC had triggered an empire-wide scramble for emergency gold coinage. The Etruscan cities were among the few with immediate access to metal — Populonia's iron and copper smelting operations made gold refining a natural extension. This fractional piece, at roughly a third the weight of the 50-asses denomination, represents the finer end of a surprisingly sophisticated local weight standard.