British Museum Duplicate

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3004. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.80 g, 12h). Head of Demeter left, hair bound in sphendone, barley grain at forehead; poppy seed [and TPO] behind / Barley ear with leaf to right; laurel leaf to right. Noe 467d = BMC 120 (this coin); HN Italy 1525. VF, toned, minor porosity. Rare.

From the John A. Seeger Collection. Ex Duplicates from the British Museum Collection (Naville V, 18 June 1923), lot 458.