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Gold 10 Asses Owl series II
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 211 BC - 206 BC |
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| Weight | 0.68 g |
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| Reverse description | Plain, uninscribed reverse with no design, typical of the hammered gold coinage of Populonia. The surface shows irregular flow lines and die-strike marks consistent with hand-struck production on a small irregular flan. No legend, symbol, or decorative element is present. |
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| Mint | Populonia |
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Populonia, the only Etruscan city known to have struck its own coinage directly from locally smelted iron-ore revenues, produced this diminutive gold piece during a period when Roman military pressure was reshaping the political geography of the Italian peninsula entirely. The denomination fits within a bronze-referenced system unusual among Etruscan issues, where gold fractions were valued against the as rather than against Greek weight standards.
The Vecchi classification places this in the second Owl series, distinguished from the first by subtle die characteristics documented in Italo Vecchi's 1995 corpus.