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Silver 1 As Cerberus
| Issuer | Luca |
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| Year | 325 BC - 275 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Cerberus, the three-headed dog of the underworld, depicted in profile facing right, rendered in archaic Greek artistic style within an incuse circular border. The creature is shown with muscular body in a striding or seated posture, with the multiple heads clearly distinguished. The design occupies the central field of this small uniface silver piece, consistent with the archaic coinage traditions of Lucania. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Luca — ancient Lucca in northwestern Etruria — produced this diminutive silver as during a period when the region was absorbing competing monetary influences from both Greek colonial coinage to the south and the expanding Roman monetary system to the east. The Cerberus type is catalogued by Vecchi as one of the rarer issues from this mint, and Jameson's example in the 1924 Paris collection remains a principal reference specimen.