MK-MS-Uni | Metapont ca. 510-470 v. Chr.

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Metapont ca. 510-470 v. Chr.
	Münster, Archäologisches Museum der Universität Vault
Inventory no	M 3505
Obverse	ΜΕΤ. Ähre mit Grannen, rechts eine Eidechse.
Reverse	Ähre mit Grannen (inkus).
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 510-470 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 ; 8,01 g; 23 mm; 12 h
Production	struck
Mint	Metaponto
Region	Lucania
Country	Italy
Publications	N. K. Rutter, Historia Numorum 1. Italy (2001) 132 Nr. 1483 (510-470 v. Chr. oder später); O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Italy and Magna Graecia, Sixth to First Centuries BC (2018) 349 Nr. 1028; SNG ANS Part 2. Lucania Nr. 240.
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
previous Owner	Horst Rosenberg
Object number	ID1882
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