Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 190. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $175. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.65 g, 8h). Head of Dionysus right, wearing diadem decorated with ivy leaves; ΠOΛY on truncation of neck, [Σ behind head] / Barley ear of six grains with leaf to left; owl alighting on leaf. Noe 464 (same dies); HN Italy 1532; BMC 93 (same dies); Pozzi 171 (same dies). Fine, lightly toned. Noe records 10 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.