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Stater of Metapontion with head of Kore

Greek
Hellenistic Period
310–300 B.C. or later
Mint: Lucania, Metapontion

Medium/Technique Silver
Dimensions Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 7.56 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.349
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0119.
DescriptionObverse: Head of Kore right in barley wreath; hair long; triple-pendant earring.
Reverse: Ear of barley; to right, leaf on which plow to left.
Inscription in Greek.
ProvenanceNeed to work on this. Brett says this is Regling no. 88. Regling also says 86 is Greenwell and 88 is not. Further, 88 is not at MFA and 86 is.

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. 88); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren