Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 188. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.68 g, 12h). Head of Dionysus left, wearing diadem decorated with ivy leaves; [E below chin] / Barley ear of seven grains with leaf to left. Noe 454 (same dies); HN Italy 1531; BMC 91 (same dies). Fine, obverse slightly off center, light scratch on reverse. Noe records 10 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.