LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 540-510 BC. AR Nomos (27mm, 7.87 g, 12h). VF.

CNG Feature Auction 133
Lot: 30. Estimated: $ 750

Greek, 12h, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 3 250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 540-510 BC. AR Nomos (27mm, 7.87 g, 12h). Barley ear with eight grains / Incuse barley ear with eight grains. Noe Class VI, 75–6; HN Italy 1479. Thin flan crack. VF.

From the Santa Monica Collection, #165. Ex Goldberg 63 (31 May 2011), lot 2416; Goldberg 55 (29 October 2009), lot 5.

Metapontion 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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