Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 21. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (7.88 g, 11h). Head of Demeter left, wearing wreath of grain ears and triple-pendant earring / Barley ear with leaf to right; kerykeion and ΛY to left, ME-TA to right. Johnston A1.6 (same dies); HN Italy 1556; SNG ANS 399; SNG Lloyd 371 (same rev. die); Basel -; Gulbenkian 79. Good VF, even gray tone with light iridescence around the devices, insignificant flan flaw in field on obverse. Attractive style.

Ex Elsen 82 (11 December 2004), lot 54.