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From the Jameson, Evans, and Bunbury Collections

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 108. Estimate $7500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009. 
Sold For $6750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 330-290 BC. AR Nomos (7.78 g, 9h). Wreathed head of Demeter facing slightly right; small AΓ to right of neck / Barley ear of seven grains, leaf to right; bucranium above leaf, AΘA below. Johnston class C, 2.2 (same dies); HN Italy 1584; SNG ANS 463-4 (same dies); Jameson 318 (this coin). EF, attractively toned.


Ex Numismatica Genevensis IV (11 December 2006), lot 13; R. Jameson Collection, 318; Arthur J. Evans Collection; Edward Herbert Bunbury Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 15 June 1896), lot 137.