LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 290-280 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.91 g, 7h). Bearded head of Herakles left, wearing tainia and lion skin tied at neck; club over far shoulder / Barley ear with leaf to right; META upward to left; to right, kantharos above leaf, B[I] below. Johnston Class D, 4.1 corr. (control letters on rev.; same dies); HN Italy 1621 corr. (same); CNG 109, lot 18 = Nomos 13, lot 115 (same dies); Leu 61, lot 38 (same obv. die). Deep iridescent toning. Superb EF. Well struck from dies of fine style. Very rare issue with left facing Herakles.
From the Father & Son Collection. Ex Antiquarium Group (Classical Numismatic Group 112, 11 September 2019), lot 47; Gasvoda Collection (Triton XXII, 8 January 2019), lot 49; M. L. Collection of Coins of Magna Graecia and Sicily (Numismatica Ars Classica 82, 20 May 2015), lot 17, purchased from NAC in 1994.