We found a couple nice ancient coins at the Willamantic CT Coin Show this weekend. This first coin has been on my want list for a long time. It comes from Metapontion and includes the barley design in normal relief on the obverse and has the barley design in inverse relief on the reverse. The obverse & reverse align perfectly which seems to promote the theory that the obverse die & reverse die were somehow hinged for alignment purposes. LUCANIA Metapontum AR Stater - Nomos 530 - 500 B.C. 25 mm, 7.67 grams Obv: Ear of barley w/ 7 grains in norm relief ME-TA. Rev: Ear of barley w/ 7 grains inverse relief. Grade: Perfectly aligned & centered VF w/ cabinet tone Other: Cf SGC 235. SNG ANS 203. Noe 97. Private sale from Davisson’s Cold Spring MN March 2017. Seller says 550-520 B.C. Please post your coins from Metapontion or any normal relief / inverse relief designs of the city states like Sybaris, Poseidona, Kaulonia, and Kroton.
Can you post an image of the edge and just the right half of the obverse so I can blow it up more than in the OP? I'd like to see a magnified image of the surface fabric and round craters and pimples.
Italy, Bruttium, Kroton Anonymous Civic Coinage (BC 530-520) AR Nomos 24 mm x 7.77 grams Obverse ϘPO left field, Lion legged Tripod center , Bennu bird standing facing left. Reverse Tripod in recess. Ref: SNG ANS 227
Do these images help or would you like me to photograph something? The coin looks like Noe 97 from this Wildwinds page: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/lucania/metapontion/t.html
A little. I know just a little about counterfeit detection. Just enough to realize I know nothing and be dangerous. Counterfeits of all types and time periods are basically made the same way. Therefore, when I see a coin with perfectly round holes and perfectly round pimples I think - hummm. When I look under the "A" I see both. There is also a round hole at 1 o'clock. I also wanted to see the surface (close up) around the "TA." The relief of the letters is "soft." So far, I don't have an opinion one way or the other on your coin as I don't know anyone who authenticates coins from an image unless they can match a coin with a C/F die.