Details
LOT 2591
Lucania, Metapontion AE 17mm. Circa 250-207 BC.
Helmetted head of Leukippos to right / Demeter standing facing, head to right, holding long-cross torch; META downwards to right. Johnston, Bronze 66; HN Italy 1702; HGC 1, 1099. Good Very Fine.(5.38gr, 17mm, 10h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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