Watch List notes:

A COLLECTION OF ETRUSCAN, EARLY ITALIAN AND ROMAN COINAGE, STRUCK COINAGE, Etruria, Populonia (c.300-250 BC), Silver 20-Asses, facing head of Metus, hair bound with a diadem, X:X below, rev blank, with very light traces of a legend ('poplv') (?), 8.53g (EC Series 37.239 (659) (O1), this coin; Sambon 59.1; Vecchi, SNR 69, 1990, 13 & 53; HN Italy 142), obverse slightly off-centre, very fine, dark old tone; another, similar, 8.44g (EC Series 37.240 (660) (O1), this coin), cabinet tone, good fine. (2)
first ex Adolphe Menjou collection, Kreisberg & Schulman, New York, 25-26 January 1957, lot 2765/6 (part)
second ex Adolphe Menjou collection, Kreisberg & Schulman, New York, 25-26 January 1957, lot 530/1 (part)

Estimate: £300-400