Watch List notes:

GREEK COINS

Lucania. Metapontum. Circa 400-340 BC. Didrachm or nomos (Silver, 20 mm, 7.73 g, 11 h). Bearded head of Leukippos to right, wearing Corinthian helmet; behind, bunch of grapes. Rev. ΜΕ Barley ear with leaf to right. HN III 1553. Johnston A4.2. Of particularly fine style, and nicely toned. A few minor scratches, otherwise, about extremely fine.

Ex Nomos 8, 22 October 2013, 21, from the B. in B. Collection, ex Sternberg XXXII, 28 October 1996, 4, from the collections of G. Picard, Sambon 14 March 1923, 142 and the Marquis Carlo Strozzi, Sangiorgi 15 April 1907, 1034.
Supposedly, Leukippos was the hero picked to lead settlers sent from Kroton and Sybaris to colonize the site of Metapontum; he was greatly revered there as the city's oikist. He is otherwise unknown and was probably a legendary figure.