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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > GI76341
Metapontion, Lucania, Italy, c. 300 - 250 B.C.
|Italy|, |Metapontion,| |Lucania,| |Italy,| |c.| |300| |-| |250| |B.C.|, Metapontum or Metapontion was an important city of Magna Graecia, on a plain of extraordinary fertility on the Gulf of Tarentum, between the river Bradanus and the Casuentus (modern Basento). It was distant about 20 km from Heraclea and 40 from Tarentum. The ruins of Metapontum are located in the frazione of Metaponto, in the comune of Bernalda, in the Province of Matera, Basilicata region, Italy.
GI76341. Bronze AE 14, Johnston Bronze 59b, SNG Lloyd 421, SNG Forbat 56, HN Italy 1695, SNG Cop -, SNG ANS -, BMC Italy -, gVF, tight flan, porosity, Metapontion (Metaponto, Italy) mint, weight 3.014g, maximum diameter 13.8mm, die axis 270o, c. 300 - 250 B.C.; obverse head of Demeter right, hair rolled and wreathed with barley, wearing pendant earring; reverse head of barley with leaf left, META downward on right; rare; SOLD




  







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