Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 177. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $230. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.59 g, 7h). Head of Demeter right, wearing fillet / Barley ear of six grains with leaf to left. Noe 411-3/414 (for obv./rev. dies); HN Italy 1516; BMC 62 (same obv. die); Pozzi 170 (same obv. die); Jameson 293 (same obv. die); McClean 925 (same rev. die). Fine, lightly toned. Rare, Noe records 3 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.