Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 184. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.52 g, 9h). Head of Demeter right, hair in sphendone / Barley ear of six grains with leaf to left; YΛ between leaf and barley ear. Noe 446 (same dies); HN Italy 1536a; SNG Lloyd 348 (same dies); Jameson 285 (same dies). Fine, lightly toned, die break on reverse. Rare, Noe records 2 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.