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, 8.23g (EC Series 59.38 (1625) (O36), this coin; Sambon 42-9; Vecchi, SNR 69, 1990, 57, 59; HN Italy 152). Cabinet toning with blue iridescence, two die-breaks on obverse as usual for this issue, good very fine to nearly extremely fine.
purchased from A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd, 23 December 1955 (see also lot 547), accompanying ticket states that Baldwin's acquired both examples in Paris.
Estimate: £600-800