METAPONTUM SILVER STATER – EX GRAND DUKE ALEXANDER MICHAILOVITCH COLLECTION AND NAVILLE ARS CLASSICA SALE OF 1922 – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK METAPONTUM COIN (Inv. 20138)

$2,500.00

20138. LUCANIA. METAPONTUM. Ca. 330–280 BC.
Silver Stater, 7.92 g, 20 mm.
Obv. Head of Demeter left, wearing wreath of grain. Rev. META, ear of grain with twisted leaf at left [amphora above, ΦI below].
Johnston, Metapontum, Class C, 11.5 (same dies); HGC 1, 106; HN Italy 1588.
Ex Burgan Numismatique, 1/26/2024, lot 40 = Munzen & Medaillen 13, 6/17/1954, lot 1002 = ex Grand Duke Alexander Michailovitch et al, Naville Ars Classica IV, 6/17/1922, lot 82.
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 3/5, Surface 2/5, “graffiti,” “flan flaw” (likely from overstriking), Naville IV provenance noted on label