Metapont

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Events

Created

When	510-470 BC
Where	Metapontum

Collected

Who	Friedrich Will (1847-1922)

Keywords

Archaic Greece City Classical antiquity Coin Plant Silver Stater

Description

Vorderseite: Ähre in Perlflechtkreis.
Rückseite: Inkus geprägte Ähre in Strahlenkreis.

Inscription

Vorderseite: ΜΕΤΑ

Similar objects

HN Italy: 1482

Material/Technique

Silber; geprägt

Measurements

Diameter: 23 mm
Weight: 7.02 g

Literature

HN Italy 132 Nr. 1482 (ca. 510-470 v. Chr. oder später).
S. P. Noe, The Coinage of Metapontum I and II. Additions and Corrections by A. Johnston (1984) 25f. Nr. 179.
Zwicker 1, 2 Nr. 83 (dieses Stück, Metapont, ca. 300 v. Chr.).

Links / Documents

Das Objekt im Interaktiven Katalog des Münzkabinetts

Object from: Münzsammlungen der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

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