Nomos

Metapontion's agricultural prosperity — built almost entirely on grain — made it one of the wealthier Greek colonies in Magna Graecia during the late fifth century, and that wealth shows in the consistent quality of its silver coinage throughout this period. The city had been a Achaean foundation, and its monetary conventions followed Achaean weight standards closely, placing it in commercial dialogue with Kroton and Sybaris rather than with the Attic-standard cities to the east.

The Noe sequence 334–344 covers a transitional phase in the series where die-linking studies have proven particularly productive for establishing relative chronology.