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- ID: 393
Submitter: Federico Pastrone
Added: 1998-04-21
LUCANIA. Metapont.
AR-Stater, 280-270 B.C.
Av.: Head of Hercules to r., wearing diadem and, around neck, chlamys, over l. shoulder, club.
Rv.: Corn ear, to l., META, to r., on leaf, knatharos, below the leaf, BI.
7,23 g. c. 19 mm.
Ref.: cf. Kraay-Hirmer 248.
BoC: 20/2, 1995/6, p. 18.
FAKE – This coin type was extremely rare until 1993 and worth the effort of copying. The model of this counterfeit is the stater ex Münzen & Medaillen AG 77, 1992, lot 10.