METAPONTUM SILVER STATER – FACING DEMETER HEAD ISSUE EX POZZI EX LOCKETT AND PUBLISHED IN JOHNSTON – XF NGC GRADED GREEK LUCANIA COIN (Inv. 17756)

$5,900.00

17756. LUCANIA. METAPONTUM. Ca. 330–280 BC.
Silver Stater, 7.66 g, 20 mm.
Obv. Wreathed head of Demeter facing three quarters right, AΠ in right field. Rev. META, ear of grain, facing bull’s head and ΑΘ[Α] in right field.
Johnston, Metapontum, Class C, 2.7 (same dies); Pozzi Collection 196 (this coin listed and illustrated); SNG Lockett 417 (this coin listed and illustrated).
Ex Samuel Pozzi Collection, Vilmar Numismatics FPL V (Summer/Fall 2023), no. 5 = Baldwins 44, 5/2/2006, 10 = Sotheby’s 4/19/1993, lot 269 = Lockett Collection, Glendining, 10/25/1955, lot 303 = Pozzi Collection, Naville 3/14/1921, lot 196.
NGC graded XF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, steel gray cabinet patina with iridescent highlights, Pozzi and Lockett provenances noted on label.