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, oXI:IXo below, rev blank, 8.40g (EC Series 55 (O26), incorrectly listed as Series 52.128 (1221); Sambon 47; Vecchi, SNR 69, 1990, 49; HN Italy 152). Well-centred and struck, beautiful cabinet tone, about extremely fine.
ex Strozzi collection, Sangiorgi, 15 April 1907, lot 554
ex Spink Numismatic Circular, volume LXII, no.12, December 1954, item 9895
purchased from Spink & Son Ltd, 5 September 1955
Estimate: £1000-1200