Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 180. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $225. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.78 g, 1h). Head of Demeter right, wearing fillet, within laurel wreath / Barley ear of six grains with leaf to left; crayfish or lobster to right. Noe 418 (same dies); HN Italy 1516. Fine, lightly toned. Rare, Noe records 3 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.