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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 4846661, member: 84744&quot;]Great score!&nbsp; As a generalist I appreciate the collecting goal you satisfied with this one.&nbsp; Great toning too!</p><p><br /></p><p>I picked up a rare one cheap recently, also from Roma.&nbsp; I wanted the earliest I could afford, when the Etruscans were still independent from Rome.&nbsp; Here&#039;s what I got:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170124[/ATTACH] </p><p>Etruria, Populonia AR Unit. Male head right, I before / Blank. Cf. EC I, 16; HN Italy 122; Sambon 79. 0.63g, 11mm. </p><p>Roma attributed it to the 4th century, but I think this is the earlier (Euboic) weight standard for Populonia (close to ~0.9g without the chip?) and so the coin would be early 4th century or even late 5th century BCE.&nbsp; The mark of value as &quot;1 as&quot; supports an earlier date of issue as well.&nbsp; The depiction looks like Tinia to me, their sky-god of Indo-European origin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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