Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 175. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 430-400 BC. AR Nomos (7.98 g, 12h). Head of Demeter right, wearing fillet / Barley ear of eight grains with leaf to left and right. Noe 389 (same dies); HN Italy 1507. VF, lightly toned, struck with worn obverse die. An interesting portrait and a very unusual reverse die. Rare, Noe records 2 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.