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Silver 5 Asses Male head series II: facing right, blank
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 301 BC - 206 BC |
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| Value | 5 Asses |
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| Reverse description | Completely plain and uninscribed reverse, presenting a flat, uniface surface with no design elements, legends, or symbols. The blank reverse is characteristic of early Populonian silver coinage and results from the single-die striking technique employed by this series. |
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| Mintage | ND (301 BC - 206 BC) |
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Populonia, on the Etruscan coast of northern Tuscany, was the only Etruscan city known to have struck its own coinage rather than relying on imported or shared issues — a function almost certainly tied to its iron-smelting economy, which required a local medium for paying workers at the furnaces processing ore from Elba. The "blank" reverse designation here is not damage or omission; it is intentional, a convention of this series in which the second die was left uninscribed, placing all identifying weight on the obverse type alone.