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Nomos
| Issuer | Metapontion |
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| Year | 340 BC - 330 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Metapontion |
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Metapontion's silver nomoi of the mid-fourth century BC were produced when the city was among the wealthiest agricultural centers in Magna Graecia, its economy built almost entirely on grain cultivation in the fertile Bradano river plain. The incuse technique that defined earlier Metapontine coinage had long been abandoned by this period, but the mint maintained exceptional die quality through the 340s and 330s — a reflection of ongoing civic investment rather than decline.
HN Italy 1560 places this issue within a tightly grouped sequence datable by stylistic die links to neighboring Tarentine coinages.