Watch List notes:

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 540-510 BC. AR Sixteenth Nomos – Obol (8.5mm, 0.49 g, 12h). Ear of barley with five grains; ƎM up left field, T in right field / Incuse ear of barley with five grains. Cf. Noe Class IV; cf. HN Italy 1470–1. Near EF, toned. Excellent metal. Unpublished denomination for class. Very rare, only three in CoinArchives.


From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex ArtCoins Roma 8 (3 February 2014), lot 31; ArtCoins Roma 5 (14 May 2012), lot 45.