Watch List notes:

Lucania, Metapontion AV Tetrobol - 1/3 Stater. Time of Pyrrhos of Epeiros, circa 280-279 BC. Bearded head of the hero Leukippos to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with Skylla hurling a stone; [ΛE]YKIΠΠ[OΣ] above / Two six-grained barley ears, each with a curling leaf; M-E across outer fields, ΣI between. Johnston G5.2 (same dies); HN Italy 1630; SNG ANS 397–8; SNG Lockett 404; Basel 153 = Gillet 202; Dewing 378; Gulbenkian 72; Jameson 1867. 2.84g, 12mm, 2h.

Extremely Fine; pleasant light reddish tone.

Privately purchased from Paoletti S.r.l. at Coinex (London).