Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 240. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 330-290 BC. AR Nomos (7.89 g, 8h). Wreathed head of Demeter left / Barley ear of seven grains with leaf to left; tongs above leaf, [AΘ]A below. Johnston Class C, 4.3/4.9 (for obv./rev. dies); HN Italy 1583; SNG Delepierre 332-3 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 392 (same rev. die); SNG Ashmolean 752 (same rev. die). VF, die shift on obverse. Very rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.