Stater

Mesma was a small Bruttian settlement whose independent coinage output was limited almost entirely to this single stater type, issued during a period of acute instability in the toe of Italy as Oscan-speaking peoples consolidated control over the region's Greek foundations. The city's numismatic record is effectively this coin — nothing before, almost nothing after.

The tight reference cluster across Ashmolean, Copenhagen, Fitzwilliam, and Pegasi reflects genuine rarity rather than collector indifference; surviving specimens are few enough that each major collection holds only isolated examples.