Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 182. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.26 g, 10h). Head of Demeter left, hair in sphendone; [spray of barley behind], APIΣTO on truncation of neck / Barley ear of six grains with leaf to right. Noe 436 (same dies); HN Italy 1521; Hunterian 9 (same dies). Near VF, lightly toned, hairline flan crack. Rare, Noe records 4 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.