Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 189. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $235. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.36 g, 6h). Head of Dionysus left, wearing diadem decorated with ivy leaves; ΣΠ below / Barley ear of six grains with leaf to right. Noe 458; HN Italy 1531. Fine, lightly toned, areas of minor roughness and a few light scratches on reverse. Rare, Noe records 4 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.