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Silver 5 Asses Turms series III: facing right, legend
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 301 BC - 206 BC |
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| Value | 5 Asses |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | V (Translation: 5) |
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Populonia, on the Etruscan coast north of Piombino, was one of the very few ancient Italian cities to mint coins directly from locally smelted metal — the ore coming from the mines of Elba and the Campigliese. Most Etruscan communities never struck silver at all. This series was produced during a period of acute military pressure, as Roman expansion steadily absorbed Etruscan territory through the third century, and the denomination structure itself reflects contact with Roman monetary thinking rather than pure Etruscan tradition.
The facing-right variant of the Turms head distinguishes this issue from the earlier facing-left types, a shift that appears deliberate rather than incidental across the die sequence.