Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 242. 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 (7.85 g, 8h). Wreathed head of Demeter left / Barley ear of seven grains with leaf to left; above leaf, griffin springing right; [Λ]Y below leaf. Johnston Class C, 6.5/6.6 (for obv./rev dies); HN Italy 1589; SNG Lockett 421 (same obv. die); SNG Ashmolean 762 (same rev. die). VF, die breaks on eye and cheek.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.