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Silver 5 Asses Lion's head series II: facing left
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 206 BC - 201 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Uniface reverse, entirely blank and uninscribed, presenting a flat to slightly concave surface with no design elements, legends, or devices. The absence of any reverse type is a defining characteristic of Populonian silver coinage of the lion's head series, the design impression being produced solely on the obverse die. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Populonia, the only Etruscan city known to have struck coinage directly from locally smelted ore, produced this fractional silver during a period when the Second Punic War was draining Italian communities of metal reserves and manpower alike. The facing-lion series is attributed to Populonia's final phase of silver production, after which the mint effectively ceased output — this small denomination among the last coinages the city would ever produce.