Silver 5 Asses Amphora series

Populonia, the only Etruscan city to mint coins directly from its own coastal ore sources, produced this series when most of its neighbors still relied on trade-weight bronze. The amphora type is conventionally linked to Populonia's role in the wine and metal trade along the Tyrrhenian coast, though the precise monetary relationship between the asses denominations in this silver series remains debated — the city later abandoned silver entirely in favor of cast bronze.