Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 203. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (6.35 g, 6h). Head of Demeter right, circlet suspended from hair; ΣOA[T] to left, [AP]IΣT[I] on truncation of neck / Barley ear of six grains with thick leaf to right. Noe 503; HN Italy 1529; De Luynes 490; Hunterian 17; McClean 934 (all from the same dies). Near VF, lightly toned. Rare, Noe records 4 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.