Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXXAuction date: 21 March 2024
Lot number: 24

Price realized: 120 GBP   (Approx. 152 USD / 140 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Etruria, Populonia Æ Sextans. Circa 215-211 BC. Diademed head of young Hercle to right, club over shoulder / Etruscan legend 'pvplvna', bow, arrow and club; •• (mark of value) between. EC I, 136.18 (this coin); HN Italy 187; Sambon 116; HGC 1, 181. 13.67g, 30mm, 5h.

Very Fine; edge split. Rare.

This coin published in I. Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage Part 1 (Milan, 2012);
Ex Baldwin's Auctions Ltd., Auction 99, 4 May 2016, lot 567;
Ex Lord Renfrew Collection, purchased from Spink & Son Ltd, 21 September 1960.

Estimate: 100 GBP

Match 1:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXXAuction date: 21 March 2024
Lot number: 23

Price realized: 1,100 GBP   (Approx. 1,393 USD / 1,283 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Etruria, Populonia Æ Sextans. Circa 215-211 BC. Diademed head of young Hercle to right, club over shoulder / Etruscan legend 'pvplvna', bow, arrow and club; •• (mark of value) between. EC I, 136.15 (this coin); HN Italy 187; Sambon 116; HGC 1, 181. 12.22g, 28mm, 5h.

Good Very Fine. Rare, and unusually well preserved for this issue.

This coin published in I. Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage Part 1 (Milan, 2012);
Ex VCV Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction 10, 27 September 2015, lot 90 (hammer: GBP 1,800).

Estimate: 1500 GBP

Match 2:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXXAuction date: 21 March 2024
Lot number: 21

Price realized: 60 GBP   (Approx. 76 USD / 70 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Etruria, Populonia Æ Uncia. Circa 215-211 BC. Female head to right, hair in band; • (mark of value) behind / Two crescents and four stars. EC I, 131.1 (this coin); HN Italy 116; HGC 1, 182. 5.67g, 23mm.

Good Fine. Extremely Rare, one of only two known examples.

This coin published in I. Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage Part 1 (Milan, 2012);
Ex VCV Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction X, 27 September 2015, lot 85.

Estimate: 100 GBP

Match 3:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXXAuction date: 21 March 2024
Lot number: 22

Price realized: 240 GBP   (Approx. 304 USD / 280 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Etruria, Populonia Æ Triens. Circa 215-211 BC. Head of Menvra to right, wearing Corinthian helmet; •••• (mark of value) below / Etruscan legend 'pvplvna', owl facing with wings spread; •••• (mark of value) between, countermarked crescent over line with two pellets. EC I, 133.26 (this coin); HN Italy 184; Sambon 114; HGC 1, 175. 20.14g, 30mm, 11h.

Very Fine, weakly struck. Rare.

This coin published in I. Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage Part 1 (Milan, 2012);
Ex VCV Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction 10, 27 September 2015, lot 87 (hammer: GBP 700).

The main bronze issues are made up of various denominations tariffed in unciae (represented by pellets) on a weight standard based on a nominal bronze as of 81g which was extant in Rome after the post-semilibral phase of c. 215-212 BC (Crawford 1974, 41).

Estimate: 400 GBP

Match 4:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXXAuction date: 21 March 2024
Lot number: 20

Price realized: 320 GBP   (Approx. 405 USD / 373 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Etruria, Populonia AR 5 Asses. 3rd century BC. Diademed and bearded male head to right; V (mark of value) behind / Blank. EC I, 89 (O1); HN Italy 174; Sambon 98; HGC 1, 132. 2.02g, 15mm.

Good Very Fine. Rare.

Ex Artemide Aste s.r.l., Auction 52, 26 October 2019, lot 26.

Estimate: 200 GBP

Match 5:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXXAuction date: 21 March 2024
Lot number: 25

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Etruria, Populonia Æ Triens of 10 Units. Circa 215-211 BC. Bust of Sethlans to right, wearing pileus decorated with laurel-wreath; X behind / Etruscan legend 'pvplvna' below hammer and tongs; •••• (mark of value) between. EC I, 140.54 (this coin); HN Italy 195; Sambon 119; HGC 1, 183. 8.04g, 24mm, 3h.

Very Fine. Rare.

This coin published in I. Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage Part 1 (Milan, 2012);
Ex VCV Collection, Auction X, 27 September 2015, lot 92 (hammer: GBP 800).

The final bronze issues (EC I, 139-140) are also tariffed with X and /X and may be metrologically connected with the remarkable struck bronze coins with incuse reverse and marks of value 1 to 100, cf. Uncertain Central Italy, EC I, 1-17.

Estimate: 500 GBP