Watch List notes:

The M.L. Collection of Coins of Magna Graecia and Sicily
Metapontum

Nomos circa 290-280, AR 7.74 g. Head of Heracles r., hair bound with taenia; lion skin tied around neck and club over l. shoulder. Rev. [M]ETA Ear of barley with stalk and leaf to r.; above leaf, cantharus; in lower r. field, B [I]. Evans, NC 1918, pl. 5, 4 (this obverse die). Johnston D 4.2 (obverse) and D 4.3 (reverse). Kraay-Hirmer pl. 85, 248. Historia Numorum Italy 1621.
Rare. A strong portrait struck in high relief and with a light iridescent tone, an insignificant
flan-crack at seven o'clock on obverse, otherwise good extremely fine
Privately purchased from NAC in 1994.