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LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (19.5mm, 7.89 g, 5h). Helmeted head of Leukippos right; grape bunch to left / Barley ear with leaf to right. Johnston Class A, 4.5 (same dies); HN Italy 1553; SNG ANS 403 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 1213 (same dies). Deep cabinet tone, some die wear, a few minor edge marks, faint graffiti on reverse. VF.
Ex Münzen & Medaillen GmbH 6 (23 March 2000), lot 8; Astarte 5 (28 October 1999), lot 117; Santamaria (7 October 1959), lot 8.
Metapontion, originally named Sybaris, was an Achaian colony of very early foundation, though the precise details of its origin are shrouded in uncertainty. Following the destruction of its first foundation by the Samnites, it was refounded as Metapontion, early in the 7th century BC by settlers under the leadership of Leukippos, who was thereafter revered as the city founder. The great prosperity of the city — attested by the extent of its archaic silver coinage commencing in the mid 6th century BC — was based on agriculture. Situated on the Gulf of Tarentum, Metapontion occupied a plain of extraordinary fertility watered by the rivers Bradanos and Kasuentos. Its standard coin type is an ear of barley, a tribute to the source of Metapontine wealth.
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