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5 Centesimae Incuse series: cross
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 211 BC - 201 BC |
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| Value | 5 Centesimae = 1/20 As (0.05) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | V |
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Populonia, the only Etruscan city known to have struck its own coinage directly from locally smelted ore, produced this bronze issue during the final, desperate decades of its independence. The city's mint was unusual in the ancient world for its vertical integration — ore extracted from Elba was processed on-site before striking. By the early second century BC, Roman political absorption of Etruria was effectively complete, making this among the last autonomous issues from the region.
The incuse cross reverse is a deliberately archaic technique by this period, more typical of earlier Etruscan bronze production.