Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 38. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (7.84 g, 6h). Head of Demeter left, wearing grain ear wreath, triple-pendant earring, and necklace / Barley ear of seven grains, leaf to right; long caduceus and ΛY on left, ME-T[A] upward on right. Johnston class A, 1.6 (same dies); HN Italy 1556; SNG ANS -; Gulbenkian 79 (same dies). Near EF, attractively toned with slight iridescence around the devices, minor die break on reverse. Good metal.

From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear 10 (11 February 2004), lot 20.