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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > GB71325
Metapontion, Lucania, c. 300 - 200 B.C.
|Italy|, |Metapontion,| |Lucania,| |c.| |300| |-| |200| |B.C.|, Metapontion (Latin: Metapontum) 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. It was about 20 km from Heraclea and 40 km from Tarentum.
GB71325. Bronze AE 16, Johnston Bronze 68a; BMC Italy p. 263, 193; HN Italy 1704; SNG Cop 1254; Pozzi 542; SNG ANS 562 var. (Athena l.); SNG Morcom 296 var. (same), VF, green patina, some corrosion, Metapontion (Metaponto, Italy) mint, weight 3.069g, maximum diameter 15.5mm, die axis 180o, c. 300 - 200 B.C.; obverse Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear in right, shield in left; reverse META, owl standing right on stalk of barley right, head facing, wings closed; SOLD










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