Lucania, Metapontum.
Nomos circa 290-280, AR 22 mm, 7.72 g. Diademed head of Heracles r., lion's skin tied around neck and club over l. shoulder. Rev. META Ear of barley with leaf to r., on which kantharos; beneath leaf, [BI]. Kraay-Hirmer pl. 85, 248. Johnston D 4.2. Historia Numorum Italy 1621.
Rare. A bold portrait and an old cabinet tone, an almost invisible metal flaw
on the obverse above the check and surface slightly porous on obverse,
otherwise about extremely fine

Ex Naville Numismatics 2, 2013, 12 and Künker 280, 2016, 50 sales. Officially imported in United Kingdom 24/01/2007.