Watch List notes:

LUCANIA, Metapontion. temp. Alexander the Molossian. Circa 334-322 BC. AV Sixth Stater (10mm, 1.30 g, 3h). Achaian standard. Head of Hera right, wearing stephanos and single-pendant earring / Six-grained barley ear with curly leaf to right. Johnston G2 (same dies); HN Italy 1579. VF. Very rare, only one example recorded by Johnston, and one of only three in CoinArchives.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 673; Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica P, 12 May 2005), lot 1059; Numismatica Ars Classica A (27 February 1991), lot 1110.