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| 表面の説明 | An octopus rendered in archaic Etruscan style, depicted facing with six sinuous tentacles radiating outward from a rounded, bulbous head and filling the field symmetrically. The tentacles are modeled in low relief with a fluid, naturalistic quality characteristic of Populonian coinage of this series. The type is set within a plain incuse circular border formed by the flan's edge, with no inscription or additional devices in the field. |
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| 縁 | Plain |
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Populonia, the only Etruscan city known to have struck its own coinage directly — rather than relying on imported or mercenary-mint issues — produced this denomination during a period when the city's iron-smelting wealth from Elba was at its height. The fractional silver series to which this piece belongs was almost certainly tied to commercial exchange with Greek traders operating along the Tyrrhenian coast, where Populonia's harbor gave it unusual economic reach for an inland-oriented culture.
The octopus series is among the earlier emissions from the mint, preceding the later struck bronzes for which Populonia is also catalogued.