Sale: Nomos 8, Lot: 14. Estimate CHF2800.  Closing Date: Monday, 21 October 2013.  Sold For CHF4100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontum. Circa 430-400 BC. Didrachm or Nomos (Silver, 19mm, 7.73 g 6). Head of Demeter (or Kore) to right, her hair bound up with a double fillet crossing over her the top of her head. Rev. ΜΕΤΑ Grain ear with leaf to left. HN III 1507. Noe 385 c (this coin). An attractive coin of fine style. Good very fine.

From the B. in B. Collection, ex Sternberg XII, 18 November 1982, 42, from the collection of L. White-King, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 22 April 1909, 22, and ex Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906, 548.