METAPONTUM SILVER STATER – PUBLISHED IN NOE AND EX DE CICCIO COLLECTION SOLD IN 1907 – CHOICE VF STAR NGC GRADED GREEK LUCANIA PROVENANCED COIN (Inv. 21050)

$5,000.00

21050. LUCANIA. METAPONTUM. Ca. 540–510 BC.
Silver Stater, 8.23 g, 30 mm.
Obv. META, ear of barley within guilloche border. Rev. Ear of barley in incuse.
HN Italy 1470; Dewing 352 (same dies).
Published: Noe, The Coinage of Metapontum, Class IV, 87 (this coin cited).
Ex Triton XVI, 1/8/2013, lot 184 = Ex Giuseppe De Ciccio Collection, Sambon & Canessa, 12/19/1907, lot 28.
NGC graded CHOICE VF STAR, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, exceptional specimen, perfectly struck on a broad planchet, and provenanced back to the De Ciccio collection of the early 20th century.