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1/3 stater of Metapontion with ear of barley
Greek
Archaic Period
about 530?–500 B.C.
Mint: Lucania, Metapontion
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 17 mm. Weight: 2.64 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.341
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0101.
DescriptionObverse: Ear of barley; raised border consisting of row of dots between two plain lines; grasshopper upwards left.
Inscription in Greek at right.
Reverse: Ear of barley incuse; striated incuse border.
Inscription in Greek at right.
Reverse: Ear of barley incuse; striated incuse border.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Edward Herbert Bunbury Collection; by 1896: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Wellington Street, Strand, London (auction of the Edward Herbert Bunbury Collection, 13 Wellington Street, Strand, London, June 15, 1896, lot 124, partial); by date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 68); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren