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Obol
| Issuer | Metapontion |
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| Year | 440 BC - 430 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | A six-grained ear of barley rendered in fine archaic relief, oriented vertically and occupying the full field; a small subsidiary device, tentatively identified as an ant or a mule's head, appears to the right of the stalk. A border of dots frames the design along the coin's periphery. The barley ear, the civic symbol of Metapontion, is depicted with careful attention to the individual grains and awns, reflecting the skilled die-cutting traditions of Magna Graecia in the mid-fifth century BC. |
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| Mint | Metapontion (Metapontum) |
| Mintage | ND (440 BC - 430 BC) |
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