Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVI 26 Sep 2018
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Etruria, Populonia AR Didrachm. 4th century BC. Head of Turms left, wearing winged petasos, Etruscan legend 'poepl' around; all within dotted border / Blank. EC I, 11 (O1); SNG Firenze 70; I. Vecchi, 'A new Etruscan toponym for Populonia: poepl' in SNR SM 268, 217, pp. 91-2; I. Vecchi, 'Un nuovo toponimo per Populonia: poe-p-l' in Monete Antiche 97, 2018, pp. 3-4; I. Vecchi, 'A New Ancient Discovery', Coin News January 2018, p. 39. 6.59, 23mm.
Extremely Fine; dark tone. Of the Highest Rarity - one of only four examples recorded, of which only two are in private hands (the other two both in Florence, and of very poor quality, though 11.1 is fortunately sufficiently well preserved to definitively determine that the dies used to strike it, and the two coins presented here are are indeed the same.
From the collection of a Swiss Etruscologist;
Ex Erik Schonholz Collection (USA);
Privately purchased from The Fountainhead of Fine Coins (New York), 1976.
Extremely Fine; dark tone. Of the Highest Rarity - one of only four examples recorded, of which only two are in private hands (the other two both in Florence, and of very poor quality, though 11.1 is fortunately sufficiently well preserved to definitively determine that the dies used to strike it, and the two coins presented here are are indeed the same.
From the collection of a Swiss Etruscologist;
Ex Erik Schonholz Collection (USA);
Privately purchased from The Fountainhead of Fine Coins (New York), 1976.