Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 249. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 290-280 BC. AR Nomos (7.70 g, 3h). Wreathed head of Demeter right; ΔI behind / Barley ear of seven grains with leaf to left; ant on lower left, cornucopia with two stalks of barley above leaf, ΦI below. Johnston Class D, 4.13 (same dies); HN Italy 1624; SNG Ashmolean 780-1 (same dies). Near EF, obverse off center. Interesting symbol.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.