METAPONTUM, Nomos or Stater, 540-510 BC, Barley grain, META to rt/Barley grain incuse, spread flan type, 30 mm; with NGC photo-certificate graded VF edge chips; it is VF, it is a little short of flan at lower left obv edge; faintly grainy; strong features with a particularly well defined rev. (A GVF brought $2760, CNG 1/19.)