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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brian Bucklan, post: 3973932, member: 76544&quot;]This interesting coin showed up in my mail yesterday.</p><p><br /></p><p>Metapontion AR Stater ca. 510-480 BC : 21mm, 8.1gms</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: Ear of Corn, grasshopper to left and META (retrograde) to right</p><p>Rev: Incuse Ear of Corn</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1045794[/ATTACH]</p><p>I found a couple more somewhat similar examples, and they all refer to the insect shown as a grasshopper. It somehow makes more sense to me if this was actually a locust, and not a grasshopper. Perhaps a swarm of locusts devastated crops in the region at that time and this coin was in response to the event. Who knows. What&#039;s interesting is that other than the locust/grasshopper (and bee of course) there are not a lot of insect species depicted on Greek coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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