Lucania, Metapontum. Drachm

Lucania, Metapontum; c. 540-510 BC, Drachm, 2.52g. Noe-, SNG ANS-, HN Italy-. Obv: METAΠ upwards to r. of six-grained barley ear; circular banker's mark in l. field. Rx: six-grained barley ear incuse. Apparently unpublished. The expanded METAΠ inscription is distinctive to Noe's Class VII, which, however, contains only nomoi/staters, no drachms at all. Also unnoticed in the literature is the obverse banker's mark; see NAC O, lot 1104 and Stack's Bowers 172, lot 11523 for a virtually identical mark on nomoi/staters, surely a product of the same workshop.. Toned gVF