Overstruck on Herakleia – Ex Lockett, Evans, Benson, and Wotoch Collections

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 191. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1050. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.79 g, 12h). Head of Demeter left, hair bound by wide fillet; poppy behind / Barley ear of seven grains with leaf to right; grasshopper on leaf. Noe 468e = SNG Lockett 396 (this coin); HN Italy 1525; SNG ANS 354 (same dies); Jameson 278 (same dies). VF, attractive old collection toning, minor marks under tone, slight area of flatness in center of reverse. Overstruck on didrachm of Herakleia. A few letters from the undertype are noticeable above the grasshopper. Rare, one of 6 examples recorded by Noe.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 96; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Glendining’s, 25 October 1955), lot 282; Sir Arthur J. Evans Collection; Sir Frank Sherman Benson Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 3 February 1909), lot 59; Count Franz von Wotoch Collection (Sambon & Canessa, 11 December 1901), lot 106.