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Silver 1 As Goose
| Issuer | Luca |
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| Year | 301 BC - 275 BC |
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| Value | 1 As |
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| Obverse description | A goose depicted in profile walking to the right, with head turned back to the left; the bird is rendered in a simple yet naturalistic style typical of early Italian bronze and silver coinage, with wing and body contours visible in low relief against an unadorned field. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface; the reverse is entirely blank, showing only the rough, irregular flan surface resulting from the hammered striking technique. No design, legend, or decorative element is present. |
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Luca was a Latin colony in northern Etruria, and its autonomous coinage is brief and poorly documented — the city was absorbed into Roman political structures early enough that its independent issues span only a few decades at most. The "Goose" series sits among the lightest fractional silver struck anywhere in pre-Roman Italy, suggesting use in small-scale local transactions rather than interregional trade.
Vecchi's classification remains the standard reference, though the die study is thin given how few specimens have surfaced in recorded collections.