Johnston Plate Coin

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 223. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (7.62 g, 6h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Barley ear of six grains with leaf to left; uncertain symbol above leaf. Johnston Class A, 6.1 (this coin referenced and illustrated); HN Italy 1560; BMC 108 (same dies). VF, toned. Rare. Overstruck on a Corinthian stater.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 105.