Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 179. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.62 g, 5h). Head of Demeter right, wearing fillet, within laurel wreath / Barley ear of six grains with leaf to left. Noe 416; HN Italy 1516; SNG ANS 323; SNG Lloyd 340; Jameson 268 (all from the same dies). Fine, lightly toned. Noe records 15 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.