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Silver 10 Asses Apulu series II: facing left, club
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 301 BC - 206 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Plain, slightly concave reverse field bearing a Herculean club in relief, presented diagonally; the surface is largely blank and characteristic of the incuse or near-incuse fabric typical of Populonian coinage of this series. The flan is irregular with a broad flat field surrounding the device. |
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Populonia, the only Etruscan city known to have struck its own coinage directly from local iron-smelting wealth, produced this series during a period when the city still functioned as a significant port and metalworking center on the Tyrrhenian coast. The facing head type is technically demanding to produce consistently, and Populonian engravers attempted it repeatedly across multiple series — the results vary considerably in execution, which is why Vecchi's classification into discrete series matters more here than with most ancient issues.
The club attribute distinguishes this from the other facing-head emissions and likely signals a specific workshop or chronological moment within what remains a poorly documented mint sequence.