Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 41. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 330-290 BC. AR Nomos (7.93 g, 7h). Head of Demeter left, wearing grain-ear wreath, triple-pendant earring, and necklace / Barley ear of seven grains, leaf to left; tongs above leaf, AΘA below. Johnston class C, 4.8 (same dies); HN Italy 1583; SNG ANS 461; SNG Lloyd 392; Gulbenkian 75-6. Good VF, toned.

From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection.