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.
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.