Issuing authority

Metapontion

Kind: city-state
Region: Magna Graecia, Europe

Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.

Published entries

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

3 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

535 BC – 330 BC

3 entries with their own date

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Catalogue entries (3)

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Cleveland Museum of Art

ancient coins

Stater: Barley (obverse); Barley, Incuse (Cleveland Museum of Art 1916.986)

c. 530–510 BCE

Cleveland Museum of Art object 1916.986: Stater: Barley (obverse); Barley, Incuse (reverse), c. 530–510 BCE. Greek, minted at Metapontion (South Italy). Silver; diameter: 2 cm (13/16 in.). Inscribed: ΜΕΤΑ (META, indicates that this coin is from Metapontion). It is catalogued in the museum's Greek and Roman Art depa…

Documented

Partial type record

Cleveland Museum of Art

ancient coins

Stater: Head of Kore (obverse); Barley (Cleveland Museum of Art 1916.991)

c. 340 BCE

Cleveland Museum of Art object 1916.991: Stater: Head of Kore (obverse); Barley (reverse), c. 340 BCE. Greek, minted at Metapontion (South Italy). Silver; diameter: 1.9 cm (3/4 in.). Inscribed: ΜΕΤΑ (META, indicates that this coin is from Metapontion); ꓘ. It is catalogued in the museum's Greek and Roman Art departm…

Documented

Partial type record

Cleveland Museum of Art

ancient coins

Stater: Head of Demeter (obverse); Barley (Cleveland Museum of Art 1917.983)

330–300 BCE

Cleveland Museum of Art object 1917.983: Stater: Head of Demeter (obverse); Barley (reverse), 330–300 BCE. Greek, minted at Metapontion (South Italy). Silver; diameter: 2.1 cm (13/16 in.). Inscribed: ΜΕΤΑ (META, indicates that this coin is from Metapontion). It is catalogued in the museum's Greek and Roman Art depa…

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

6th century BC1
4th century BC2

Only the 3 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.

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