MK-B | Metapont ca. 540-510 v. Chr.

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Metapont ca. 540-510 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Galleries Altes Museum (temporarily closed) AM1/66 The Beginning of Coinage
Obverse	MET. Kornähre mit je acht seitlichen Rispen und zwei Blättern, Perlrand, Stempelverletzung oben.
Reverse	Kornähre mit je acht Rispen vertieft (inkus), vertiefter Perlrand.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 540-510 v. Chr. Archaic
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 ; 8,03 g; 28 mm; 12 h
Production	struck
Mint	Metaponto
Region	Lucania
Country	Italy
Publications	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) 14 Nr. 3 (dieses Stück); N. K. Rutter, Historia Numorum. Italy (2001) 131 Nr. 1459 (540-510 v. Chr.); SNG Kopenhagen Nr. 1158-1159 Taf. 24 (datiert 6.-frühes 5. Jh. v. Chr.).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1873 Fox
Year of access	1873
previous Owner	Charles Richard Fox - 1873
Object number	18203391
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