Watch List notes:

LUCANIA. Metapontion. Punic occupation, circa 215-207 BC. Half Shekel (Silver, 19 mm, 3.86 g, 8 h). Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet. Rev. META Ear of barley with leaf to right; above leaf, owl standing facing with wings spread. HN Italy 1634. Robinson p. 50, 3. SNG ANS 550. A bright and lustrous piece. Hairline flan cracks, otherwise, virtually as struck.


From an important collection of coins from Magna Graecia and Punic Sicily, formed in the 1990s and early 2000s.