Metapontum Historia Numorum Italy 1494, Silver, struck at Metapontum, 440–430 BC. Obverse: barley-ear épi d'orge. Reverse: heracles standing, beardless, wearing a lion skin, holding a club and a bow in his hand and a libation vessel above a rectangular altar in his hand. Weight about g.
| mint | Metapontum | weight | g (0) |
| ruler | — | diameter | ⌀ (0) |
| denomination | — | axis | ↕ (0) |
| material | Silver | technique | — |
| country | Greece | dataset | IRIS — Greek coinage (greekcoinage.org) |
obverse
Barley-ear Épi d'orge
reverse
Heracles standing, beardless, wearing a lion skin, holding a club and a bow in his hand and a libation vessel above a rectangular altar in his hand
Cite this coin
Metapontum Historia Numorum Italy 1494 (metapontum.hn_italy.1494), 440–430 BC. Corpus Apertum Nummorum Orbis Antiqui (CANOA). https://canoanumis.org/coins/metapontum-historia-numorum-italy-1494/ (accessed: 2026-09-13). Full citation guidance: How to cite CANOA