Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 192. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $410. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.88 g, 10h). Head of Demeter left, wearing hair in braids around head; ΣT behind / Barley ear of six grains with leaf to right; uncertain symbol above leaf. Noe 476 (same dies); HN Italy 1527; SNG ANS 360 (same dies); Weber 777 (same dies). VF, lightly toned, traces of deposits. Rare, Noe records 3 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Noble Numismatics 51 (3 July 1996), lot 2007.