TYPE Ancient Greece, Paestum (Lucania), 268-89 BC, bronze quadrans (AE18)
DESCRIPTION .
Obv: Head of Poseidon to right, 3 pellets behind
Rev: Dolphin r., 3 pellets above, Greek PAIS and grain (strigil?) below
REFERENCE: SG 632v, LE 289
GRADING: VF / AVF, partially encrusted olive green patina
ORDER INFO: G3077, $70
Following its capture by Lucanians right after 400 BC, the city's name got corrupted from Poseidonia to Paestum, though it retained a degree of its Poseidonian cult, as evidenced also on this bronze issue.