Watch List notes:

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.46 g, 11h). Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath; [thunderbolt to left] / Barley ear of seven grains, leaf to right; METAΠON upward to left, KA[Λ] above leaf. Johnston Class A, 6.3 (same dies); HN Italy 1558; SNG ANS 412–3 (same dies); Jameson 301 (same obv. die). EF, toned, minor roughness. Rare.


Ex Manhattan Sale II (4 January 2011), lot 105.