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Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 170. Estimate $500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009. 
Sold For $535. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 440-430 BC. AR Nomos (7.20 g, 12h). Barley ear of seven grains; to right, grasshopper upward / Apollo standing facing, head left, holding bow and arrow, and laurel tree set on altar to left. Noe 319 (same dies); HN Italy 1496; SNG ANS 278 (same dies); SNG Lockett 380 (same dies). Near VF, toned, minor dig on reverse, minor marks under tone. Noe records 17 examples.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Vecchi 15 (15 June 1999), lot 49.