ITALY, Lucania, Metapontum, (c.480 B.C.), silver stater, (7.56 g), obv. six grain ear of corn, META upwards on left, rev. six grain ear of corn, incuse, (cf.S.238, Noe 203, McClean 894, cf.SNG ANS 237, cf.SNG Cop. 1165, cf.SNG Lockett 369). Very fine, very rare set of dies known by the McClean example.
Ex George Mihailuk Collection, from Spink, Australia in the 1980s.