Lot 4576

Description

Italy, Lucania, Metapontum, (c.340-330 B.C.), silver nomos (7.58 g), obv. bearded head of Zeus Eleutherios to right, to right **ELEUQERIOS, D* behind, rev. META downwards on right, barley ear of seven grains, Selinos crouching above leaf, **D* below), (S.-, Johnston Class A 2.2 [same dies], SNG Munich 988, SNG ANS 451 [same obverse die], HN Italy 1557). Very fine, toned, the type of Zeus head is of great rarity, four known being only one other example beside those cited above.

Ex CNG Mail Bid Sale 67 (September 22, 2004) (lot 140) and from the Tony Hardy Collection.