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1/3 stater of Metapontion with head of Persephone (?)
Greek
Late Classical Period
about 350/334–330 B.C.
Mint: Lucania, Metapontion
Medium/Technique
Gold
Dimensions
Diameter: 14 mm. Weight: 2.60 gm. Die Axis: 9
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number61.1187
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek Coins, 1950-1963 (MFA), no. 007.
DescriptionObverse: Head of Persephone (?) to right, wearing stephane and earring.
Reverse: Ear of wheat; to right, leaf on which there is perched a dove.
Inscription at left, upwards.
Reverse: Ear of wheat; to right, leaf on which there is perched a dove.
Inscription at left, upwards.
ProvenanceBy 1961: with Hesperia Art, 2219 St. James Place, Philadelphia 3, Pa. (Hesperia Art, Bulletin XVI, no. 5); December 13, 1961: purchased by MFA from Hesperia Art for $ 450.-