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Silver 1 As Silenus series: detailed face

Issuer Populonia
Year 301 BC - 206 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (301 BC - 206 BC) - Unique
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Populonia, the only Etruscan city known to have struck its own coinage directly from local iron-working wealth, produced this fractional silver during a period of sustained pressure from Roman expansion up the Tyrrhenian coast. The "var." designations against HN Italy 232 and EC 1 123 suggest a die combination not fully catalogued — not uncommon in the Silenus series, where hand-cut dies produced enough minor divergences to keep attributions contested.

Vecchi III carries no reference number for this precise piece.

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