Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 52. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 440-430 BC. AR Nomos (8.01 gm). META, ear of barley with seven grains / Five barley grains forming a star. Noe 310.1, pl. 44; SNG ANS -; HN Italy 1490 var.; SNG Ashmolean 676. Toned, good VF. Very rare. ($2500) 

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 10 (9 April 1997), lot 37; Frank Sternberg XX (20 April 1988), lot 93. 

An interesting transitional issue struck between the incuse pieces and the double relief issues.