Metapontum
Nomos circa 290-280, AR 7.93 g. Head of Demeter r., wearing barley wreath. Rev. META Ear of barley with leaf to r., on which, two amphorae surmounted by star; in r. lower field, ΦI. SNG ANS 517 (these dies). Johnston D 4.16. Historia Numorum Italy 1625.
Struck in high relief and with a wonderful iridescent tone, obverse from a
slightly rusty die, otherwise extremely fine / good extremely fine

Ex Nomos sale 17, 2018, 16. From the Vineyard collection, bought in early 1998 in Weil am Rhein.