Lucanie - Métaponte - Nomos - (330-300). Exemplaire... Lot 7

Lucanie - Métaponte - Nomos - (330-300). Exemplaire d’un style et d’une qualité exceptionnels - Patine médaillier. Acheté à l’amiable en 2006 chez Tradart. 8.02g - Johnston avers du A 7.13 revers du A 7.15 - HN Italy 1567 FDC - CHOICE MS The superb nearly-facing head of Demeter, the goddess who protected the crops, is an appropriate obverse to the barley ear depicted on the reverse of this coin, which had become a civic emblem on Metapontine coins from the mid-fifth century BC onwards. The importance of grain to the city’s exports explains these unusual iconographic choices, at a time when mythological types were more frequently chosen.