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Silver 1 As Archaic wheel series: without value
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 401 BC - 301 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Completely blank and uniface, exhibiting only the irregular hammered surface of the planchet with no design, legend, or decorative element of any kind. The surface retains the characteristic flat, unworked texture produced by the striking process on an uninscribed anvil die, consistent with the earliest series of Populonian coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Populonia, on the Etruscan coast of what is now Tuscany, was the only Etruscan city known to have struck its own coinage directly from locally smelted metal — iron ore processed on-site from the rich deposits of Elba, with silver likely acquired through trade. This archaic wheel series, among the earliest of the Populonian issues, predates the introduction of value marks, suggesting an early experimental phase before the mint standardized its denominational system.