Fraction from Metapontum | Yale University Art Gallery

250–200 B.C.

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 5.21 g, 7:00, 16 mm
Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Harold A. Thau
Accession Number: 2001.87.2518
Geography: Made in Metapontum, Lucania
Culture: Greek
Period: 3rd century B.C.
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Head of Demeter r., hair partly rolled under barley wreath though some locks fall loose to her shoulder.

Reverse Description: META to l. of two barley ears, each with short curly leaf to r.

Provenance

Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., from at least 1989 to 2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Object copyright

Additional information

coins, money

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