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Silver 1 As Octopus series: six tentacles
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 450 BC - 401 BC |
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| Value | 1 As |
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| Obverse description | Octopus depicted facing, rendered in archaic style, with a central globular body and six tentacles radiating outward and curling at their tips across the flat field. The design is boldly struck and centrally placed, occupying most of the flan. The naturalistically stylized cephalopod is characteristic of the early Populonian silver coinage tradition. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface; the reverse is entirely blank, showing only the irregular surface of the unstruck flan with no design, legend, or incuse impression. The flan exhibits natural flow lines and surface texture consistent with hammered archaic coinage. |
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| Mint | Populonia |
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