Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 193. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.56 g, 3h). Head of Demeter right, hair bound with fillet / Barley ear of seven grains with leaf to left; palmette above leaf. Noe 480; HN Italy 1540; SNG ANS 363; BMC 86; De Luynes 491; McClean 976 (all from the same dies). Fine, toned, weakly struck in centers. An attractive portrait. Noe records 11 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Superior MBS (22 August 1994), lot 1571.