Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 172. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 430-400 BC. AR Nomos (7.24 g, 5h). Head of Demeter left, wearing fillet / Barley ear of seven grains with leaf to left. Noe 328 (same obv. die); HN Italy 1513; de Luynes 474 (same obv. die). VF, toned. Noe records 9 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Superior (2 June 1998), lot 6185.