Sale: Triton V, Lot: 69. Estimate $250.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion . Circa 300-250 BC. Æ 15mm (3.38 gm). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / META, ear of barley. Johnston, "The Bronze Coinage of Metapontum," in Kraay/Morkhølm Essays, 60; SNG ANS 567-568; BMC Italy pg. 260, 174; SNG Copenhagen 1253; SNG Morcom -; Laffaille 54. EF, light brown patina, with just a trace of light encrustation. Exceptional style. ($250)