The Punic Occupation of Metapontion
Ex Falm Collection of Miniature Masterpieces

445, Lot: 27. Estimate $1500. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Punic occupation. Circa 215-207 BC. AR Half Shekel – Drachm (18mm, 3.63 g, 2h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / Barley ear with leaf to right; META downward to left; above leaf, owl standing right, head facing, with wings spread. Robinson, Second, p. 50, 3; HN Italy 1634; SNG ANS 549–50; Demeester 10 (this coin); Jameson 329; Weber 779. EF, deep gray tone with iridescent hues.

Ex Gasvoda Collection; J. FALM Collection of Miniature Masterpieces of Greek Coinage depicting Animals (Numismatica Ars Classica 82, 20 May 2015), lot 74; Numismatica Ars Classica 8 (3 April 1995), lot 68.