Etruria, Populonia AR 10 Asses. Circa 300-250 BC. Head of Persipina right, wearing barley wreath; + behind / Blank. EC I, 78, 2 (this coin); HN Italy 165 (part); McClean collection 136 = Grose 136. 3.67g, 19mm.
Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; one of only two examples recorded and the only one in private hands (the other in the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge).
From the collection of a Swiss Etruscologist;
This coin published in I. Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage, 2012;
Ex Astarte 7, 10 October 2001, lot 9.