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| Issuer | Metapontion |
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| Year | 400 BC - 340 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm (540-200BC) |
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| Obverse description | Bearded head of Leukippos facing right, wearing a Corinthian helmet; a bunch of grapes appears in the field behind the head. The portrait is rendered in high relief with confident archaic-to-classical transitional style, characteristic of the Metapontine die-engraving tradition. |
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| Reverse description | A single barley ear depicted in high relief along the central axis of the coin, with a leaf extending to the right; the ethnic abbreviation ΜΕ appears in the left field. The meticulously rendered grain motif served as the civic emblem of Metapontion, referencing the city's agricultural prosperity in Magna Graecia. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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