CNG 109, Lot: 21. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Punic occupation. Circa 215-207 BC. AR Half Shekel – Drachm (18mm, 3.76 g, 7h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Barley ear with leaf to right; above leaf, owl right, head facing, with wings spread. Robinson, Second, p. 50, 3; HN Italy 1634. EF, toned, underlying luster.

From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Hess-Divo 328 (22 May 2015), lot 7; Spink 183 (26 September 2006), lot 540.