Watch List notes:

A COLLECTION OF ETRUSCAN, EARLY ITALIAN AND ROMAN COINAGE, STRUCK COINAGE, Etruria, Populonia (c.425-400 BC), Silver Didrachm of 10-Units, facing head of Metus, hair bound with a diadem, X below, rev blank, 8.31g (EC Series 8.13 (44) (O1), this coin, illustrated on pl. 12; Sambon 35-6; Vecchi, SNR 69, 1990, 2.14, this coin; HN Italy 117). Attractive dark patina, excellent early style, good very fine and very rare, a captivating example.
ex Strozzi collection, Sangiorgi, 15 April 1907, lot 549
ex Spink Numismatic Circular, volume LXII, no.12, December 1954, item 9894
purchased from Spink & Son Ltd, 5 September 1955

Estimate: £1000-1200