A COLLECTION OF ETRUSCAN, EARLY ITALIAN AND ROMAN COINAGE, STRUCK COINAGE, Etruria, Populonia (3rd Century BC), Silver 20-Asses, facing head of Metus, hair bound with a diadem, °X : X° below, rev blank, 8.24g (EC Series 52.124 (1217) (O20), this coin; Sambon 59; Vecchi, SNR 69, 1990, 13 & 56; HN Italy 142). Die-break on obverse, as usual for this issue, dark patina, very fine.
ex Adolphe Menjou collection, Kreisberg & Schulman, New York, 25-26 January 1957, lot 530/1 (part)
Estimate: £200-250