While often discussed as a whole, the term Magna Graecia often glosses over the differences between the various Greek colonial cities in the central Mediterranean. That being said, the city of Metapontum was just as connected to the regional trade in precious metal as any of its sister settlements, as demonstrated by a fascinating metallurgical study published in 2019 by Birch, et al. The authors analyzed coins from Taras, Metapontum, Thurium, and Syracuse and concluded that the constituent metal was nearly “exclusively derived from deposits in the broader Aegean region”. While traces were found to have originated in the Iberian Peninsula, it is most likely that the majority was sourced from either the mines of Laurion or other mainland Greek deposits. As such, this particular coin stands as testament to the extensive trade networks between the old world eastern Mediterranean cities and the newer Magna Graecia settlements on Sicily and in southern Italy.