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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 40. Estimate $2000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. 
Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 330-290 BC. AR Nomos (7.92 g, 2h). Head of Demeter facing slightly right, wearing grain ear wreath, triple-pendant earrings, and necklace / Barley ear of seven grains, leaf to right; bucranium above leaf, AΘA below. Johnston class C, 2.6 (same dies); HN Italy 1584; SNG ANS 463-4 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 1220 (same obv. die). Good VF, darkly toned with slight iridescence around the devices. Fine style.


From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection.