Watch List notes:

Lucania, Metapontion AR Stater. Circa 400-340 BC. Head of Demeter to right, her hair bound in sphendone / [M]ETAΠΟΝ, barley ear with leaf to right; laurel leaf in right field. HN Italy 1544; Noe 494. 7.53g, 20mm, 7h.

Very Fine. Very Rare; Noe records only 6 examples.

From a private European collection;
Acquired from Leu Numismatik; previously from an old Swiss collection, formed in the 1970s.