Silver 1 As Male head series II: facing right, without value

Populonia was the only Etruscan city-state known to have struck its own coinage directly from locally smelted metal, drawing on iron ore processed at the nearby mines of Elba and the Colline Metallifere. The "male head" silver series spans a long production window, and the absence of a value mark on this variant distinguishes it from the more frequently encountered denominated issues — a distinction that has generated debate over whether unmarked pieces represent an earlier convention or a parallel workshop practice.