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Auction XVIII  29 Sep 2019
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Lot 482

Estimate: 7500 GBP
Price realized: 7500 GBP
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Lucania, Metapontion AR Stater. Circa 400-340 BC. Head of Demeter left, wearing hair net, loop earring and pearl necklace / Barley ear with seven grains on each side with leaf to right; METAΠ in left field, ivy leaf to right. Noe 519 (same dies); Pozzi 179 (same dies); McClean 968/969 (same obv./rev. dies); HN Italy 1546. 7.98g, 20mm, 11h.

Near Mint State; beautiful light cabinet tone with hints of golden iridescence. In spectacular condition for a stater of Metapontion.

Ex JMG Collection, Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XVII, 7 January 2014, lot 15;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 25, 25 June 2003, lot 25;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 6, 11 March 1993, lot 35.
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