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Silver 1 As Eagle series
| Issuer | Populonia |
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| Year | 401 BC - 301 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | An eagle depicted in profile facing right, rendered in archaic Etruscan style with boldly struck feather detail. The bird is shown standing with wings folded against the body, the head turned slightly upward with a hooked beak clearly delineated. The figure occupies the majority of the flan, which is irregular and slightly concave as typical of hammered Etruscan coinage. The field surrounding the eagle is plain and unlettered. |
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| Mintage | ND (401 BC - 301 BC) - Only 2 examples known |
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Populonia, the only Etruscan city known to have struck its own coinage directly from locally smelted ore, drew on iron deposits from Elba to fund a mint that operated with striking independence from the broader Etruscan confederation. The As denomination in silver is itself an anomaly — most Mediterranean polities of this period were moving toward bronze for fractional coinage, making Populonia's continued reliance on silver fractions an artifact of its unusual mineral wealth rather than any monetary conservatism.
The Vecchi-III reference gap signals an unclassified or provisionally attributed piece, placing it outside the established die-study sequence.