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The silver staters of Lucania represent some of the finest achievements of the Magna Graecia coinage tradition, produced by the Greek colonial cities of the region of southern Italy that occupied the instep of the Italian peninsula and maintained a minting tradition of extraordinary artistic ambition and technical accomplishment across several centuries of ancient history. This Lucanian Silver Stater is a stunning Mint State specimen, according to the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC), with modest strike and surface grades. Now, Lucania Metapontum AR Stater Coins are available online from Bullion Metals.

Coin arrives in an individual acrylic slab!Released between 330 and 280 BC!Struck in Metapontum, Lucania!3/5 strike!3/5 surface!Contains 7.96 grams of actual silver content.Bears a grade of Mint State from the NGC.The obverse features a bust of Demeter.On the reverse are barley ears with tongs.

Coin arrives in an individual acrylic slab!

Released between 330 and 280 BC!

Contains 7.96 grams of actual silver content.

Bears a grade of Mint State from the NGC.

The obverse features a bust of Demeter.

On the reverse are barley ears with tongs.

This Lucania Metapontum AR Stater Coin arrives in impressive Mint State condition with 3/5 grades for both the strike and surface conditions. The strike elements are modest in appearance, with the primary details easily visible on each side, while the surface of the coin shows modest signs of wear and tear, as well as toning.

The obverse of the Lucanian AR Stater Coin presents a carefully executed head of Demeter or another deity appropriate to the city’s agricultural identity and religious traditions, rendered with the refined, idealized beauty of the best South Italian die engravers. On the reverse of Lucania Metapontum AR Staters, you will find the instantly recognizable and universally admired ear of barley design. This was the city’s defining civic symbol, and it is rendered with a naturalistic precision and decorative elegance.

The silver staters struck at Metapontum in Lucania between approximately 330 and 280 BC represent the city’s coinage tradition at its most mature and accomplished, produced during a period that encompassed the campaigns of Alexander of Epirus in southern Italy, the growing pressure of the Samnite and Lucanian peoples on the Greek colonial cities, and the opening phases of Rome’s inexorable southward expansion that would ultimately absorb the entire Magna Graecia world.