MK-B | Metapont um 375 v. Chr.

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Metapont um 375 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 241, BM-22/22 Ancient Gods
Obverse	Kopf der Demeter mit (Oliven-?) Kranz, Ohrschmuck und Halskette nach l. Auf dem Halsabschnitt die Signatur APIΣTOΞE.
Reverse	META. Getreideähre.
Class/status	City
Date	um 375 v. Chr. Classical
Denomination	Stater Stater Literally the resp. one unit. Hence designating the main unit within a certain currency of a Greek city or realm. The silver tetradrachm of Athens or the tridrachm of Corinth hence are also the stater within each denominational system. The main meaning though, especially in modern scholarship, is that of a denomination in gold of about 8.6 grams in the Attic standard.
	Silver ; 7,88 g; 22 mm; 2 h
Production	struck
Mint	Metaponto
Region	Lucania
Country	Italy
Publications	K. Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk (1924) Nr. 722 Taf. 35 (dieses Stück); S. P. Noe (mit Korrekturen und Nachträgen von A. Johnston), The Coinage of Metapontum I-II. ANS Numismatic Notes and Monographs (32) 1927 und (47) 1931 (überarbeiteter Nachdruck 1984) 78 Nr. 422 c (dieses Stück).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Die-cutter	Aristoxenos
Accession	1873 Fox
previous Owner	Charles Richard Fox
Object number	18200338
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