Metapontum.   Nomos circa 400-340, AR 6.50 g. Head of Dionysus l., wearing diadem decorated with a meander pattern and ivy leaves above. Rev. [META] Barley-ear with leaf at l. Noe 454h (this coin). De Sartiges 38 (these dies). SNG Lockett 392 (this coin). Historia Numorum Italy 1531.
Rare. An interesting and unusual portrait of Dionysus with a light old cabinet tone.
A metal flaw on reverse, otherwise good very fine

Ex Naville VI, 1924, Bement 174; Glendining's 26 October 1955, Lockett I, 278; NAC 2, 1990, 29 and New York XXVII, 2012, Prospero, 57 sales.