Sale: Nomos 5, Lot: 106. Estimate CHF2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 24 October 2011.  Sold For CHF6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 540-510 BC. Stater (Silver, 8.12 g 12). ΜΕΤΑΠ Ear of barley with seven grains; around, border of dots Rev. Ear of barley with seven grains, incuse; rayed border. HN III 1481. Noe 139; SNG ANS 218; SNG Lloyd 305 (all same dies). An attractive, very nicely toned example. Nearly extremely fine.

From the PGB collection, acquired from Coin Galleries in the 1980s.