LUCANIA. Metapontum. 325-275 BC. Diobol (Silver, 12 mm, 1.34 g, 6 h), Sa.... Head of Apollo Karneios to left, horn of Ammon around his ear; below chin, [Σ]Α. Rev. ΜΕΤΑ Ear of barley with leaf to right; on leaf, owl standing right with grasshopper; below right, Π. HN Italy 1601. Johnston F7.2 = de Luynes 514 ( same dies ). A lovely coin of remarkably fine and delicate late Classical, early Hellenistic style. Bright and well-struck. Minor die wear, otherwise, extremely fine.

Very interestingly the somewhat oblong shape of this coin's flan, and the way the coin was struck, is almost exactly the same as that of the wonderful coin from the Gasvoda and Falm Collections (see NAC 82, 2015, 73 and Triton XXII, 2019, 50). This means that not only were these two coins struck contemporaneously, but that their flans were made in the same group. In fact, it is very likely that they must have been made within minutes of each other.