Greek Coins of Magna Graecia and Southern Italy

Use this path for Greek colonial coinage in southern Italy, especially incuse silver, Tarentine horsemen, Lucanian and Brettian issues, and older Sambon or BMC Italy citations. BMC Italy is the broad catalogue base, while Sambon and Garrucci preserve older regional classifications and many references still encountered in sale catalogues.

Hands gives a quick interpretive overview of the southern Italian Greek colonies. Evans is the focused work for Tarentine horseman types, symbols, magistrates, and plate comparisons.

Follow the transition from incuse to relief coinage

Noe’s first Metapontum volume treats the incuse series; it should be distinguished from Johnston’s Part Three. Kraay on Caulonia shows how an added die link can bridge incuse and double-relief issues. At another mint, Noe’s Poseidonia sequences use a letter-marked group to explore relative order within a changing series.

Kraay’s Sybaris study brings coin evidence into the difficult history of successive communities bearing the same name. For Hellenistic bronze, compare Scheu on the Bruttians and on the Lucanians. The comparison turns on denominations, weights, controls, and dependence between neighboring series, so a matching subject on the obverse is only the beginning of the enquiry.