Nomos

Metapontion's silver nomoi of this period reflect the city's prosperity as one of the wealthiest Greek colonies in Magna Graecia, its agricultural surplus — particularly barley — underpinning an economy stable enough to sustain high-quality silver coinage for centuries. By the 340s, the city had weathered Lucanian pressure from the interior for decades without the coinage quality degrading, which is unusual for a city under that degree of territorial stress.

HN Italy 1566 places this issue within a well-documented sequence. The fabric is consistently good for the type, with little variation in flan preparation across known specimens.