A COLLECTION OF ETRUSCAN, EARLY ITALIAN AND ROMAN COINAGE, STRUCK COINAGE, Etruria, Populonia (c.300-250 BC), Silver 20-Asses, facing youthful head of Heracle, wearing a lion's skin knotted at neck, X on either side, rev blank, 8.66g (EC Series 65.45 (1858) (O1), this coin; Sambon 61; Vecchi, SNR 69, 1990, 75; HN Italy 155). Dark tone, about very fine.
ex Adolphe Menjou collection, Kreisberg & Schulman, New York, 25-26 January 1957, lot 530/1 (part)
Estimate: £200-250