Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 171. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 430-400 BC. AR Nomos (7.31 g, 12h). Veiled and diademed head of Demeter right; torch before / Barley ear of six grains. Noe 323 (same rev. die); HN Italy 1511; BMC 146 (same rev. die); Jameson 280 (same rev. die). VF, toned, traces of deposits on reverse. Noe records 7 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 41 (19 March 1997), lot 81.