452, Lot: 35. Estimate $250. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Punic occupation. Circa 215-207 BC. AR Half Shekel – Drachm (17mm, 3.30 g, 6h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / Barley ear with leaf to right; above leaf, owl standing right, head facing, with wings spread. Robinson, Second, p. 50, 3; HN Italy 1634. Light iridescent tone, slight die wear, a little off center on reverse. Near EF.

Ex Spink 183 (26 September 2006), lot 541.