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Silver 1 As Necklaced male head series
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 301 BC - 206 BC |
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| Currency | As (circa 475-201 BC) |
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| Obverse description | Bare male head facing left, depicted in archaic Etruscan style with schematic facial features; the neck is adorned with a necklace or torque, a distinctive iconographic element of this series. The hair is rendered in summary fashion with striated or beaded locks. The value mark 'I' (denoting 1 As) appears in the field, likely to the right of the bust. The flan is small and irregular, characteristic of the lightweight fractional coinage of Populonia. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Populonia was the only Etruscan city to strike its own coinage directly from locally controlled iron-rich resources along the Tyrrhenian coast, and its silver fractional series — of which this as belongs — reflects a mint operating largely independent of Roman monetary influence well into the third century BC. By the time Rome absorbed the region, much of Populonia's coinage had already dropped out of circulation, which is precisely why surviving examples often retain surprising surface detail despite their age.