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Gold 50 Asses
| Issuer | Luca |
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| Year | 301 BC - 275 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Plain, flat reverse field bearing no device or legend, displaying the characteristic incuse or blank appearance typical of early Italian cast and hammered gold issues of this period. The surface exhibits the irregular hammered texture resulting from the striking process, with tool marks and flow lines visible across the flan. The rim retains a slightly raised border consistent with the obverse beaded periphery. |
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| Mint | Luca |
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Luca — modern Lucca in Tuscany — was an Etruscan center that produced coinage during a period of intensifying Roman pressure on the region. These gold fractions belong to a brief window of autonomous Etruscan monetary production before Roman political and economic absorption made independent civic coinage increasingly untenable. The denomination itself, reckoning in asses, reflects the degree to which Etruscan communities had already absorbed Roman weight standards into their own systems even while maintaining distinct civic identities.
Surviving examples are genuinely rare. Vecchi's corpus remains the primary reference precisely because the series is small enough to catalogue individually.