Watch List notes:

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Punic occupation. Circa 215-207 BC. AR Half Shekel – Drachm (19mm, 3.50 g, 11h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / Barley ear with leaf to right; META downward to left; above leaf, owl standing right, head facing, with wings spread. Robinson, Second, p. 50, 3; HN Italy 1634; SNG ANS 549–50; Jameson 329; Weber 779. Lightly toned, underlying luster. EF.


From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Ponterio 112 (27 April 2001), lot 121.