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Silver 2 1/2 Asses Male head series II: pentagrams
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 301 BC - 206 BC |
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| Value | 21/2 Asses (2.5) |
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| Obverse script | Etruscan |
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| Reverse description | Two pentagrams, each enclosed within a circle of pellets, arranged symmetrically on a plain field. The pentagrams serve as distinctive type marks identifying this emission within the Populonian series, executed with clean incised lines characteristic of hammered Etruscan silver coinage. |
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Populonia, the only Etruscan city known to have minted coins directly from locally smelted iron-ore slag, produced this fractional silver piece during a period when the city's mint output was driven almost entirely by the demands of mercenary payment and inter-city trade along the Tyrrhenian coast. The pentagram devices on this series have been interpreted as possible guild or magistrate marks, though no consensus exists on their precise administrative function.
By the early second century BC, Roman encroachment had effectively ended Populonian monetary independence.