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Diobol of Metapontion with ear of barley
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
500–473 B.C.
Mint: Lucania, Metapontion
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 13 mm. Weight: 1.29 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.342
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CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0104.
DescriptionObverse: Ear of barley within raised border of row of dots between two plain lines.
Inscription in Greek.
Reverse: Facing incuse bull's head, horns curving downwards.
Striated incuse border.
Inscription in Greek.
Reverse: Facing incuse bull's head, horns curving downwards.
Striated incuse border.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 69); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren