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| Issuer | Metapontion |
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| Year | 300 BC - 250 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse lettering | META |
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| Mint | Metapontion (Lucania) |
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Metapontion's bronze coinage of this period was municipal small change, filling gaps left by the city's silver staters in everyday transactions. The city's prosperity — built substantially on grain agriculture in the fertile Bradano valley — was already declining by the mid-third century, pressured by Oscan encroachment and the broader destabilization of Magna Graecia. These bronzes circulated through that slow contraction.
HN Italy 1701 is a well-documented type but Rutter's corpus records enough die variation across the series to suggest extended production rather than a single issue event.