Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 219. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $555. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (7.76 g, 8h). Bearded head of Zeus Eleutherios right; [Δ] behind / Barley ear of seven grains with leaf to left; Selinos crouching above leaf, Δ below. Johnston Class A, 2.2; HN Italy 1557; SNG Lloyd 373; SNG München 988 (all from the same dies). VF, toned, areas of porosity, traces of die rust on reverse. Rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica (26 October 1995), lot 46.