Watch List notes:

LUCANIA. Metapontum. Circa 400-340 BC. Nomos (Silver, 21.5 mm, 7.53 g, 1 h), struck under the magistrate Zo... Female head to right, wearing triple pendant earring, the hair rolled back from the forehead and tucked in at the back. Rev. META Ear of barley with leaf to right; above leaf, ZΩ. HN III 1538. Noe, Metapontum 507 (same dies). Very rare - only five examples on CoinArchives. With a finely engraved female head in the style of Euainetos. Die break on reverse, porosity and deposits, otherwise, good very fine.



Noe, p. 86, notes that the female head on this coin is "derived from the Euainetos head at Syracuse - possibly through the version used at Terina".