Triton XIV, Lot: 5. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (22mm, 7.44 g, 11h). Head of Arethusa right, wearing triple-pendant earring and beaded necklace / Ear of barley with seven grains and leaf to right; META to left; to right, ZΩ above leaf. Noe 508a = Jameson 284 (this coin); HN Italy 1538; SNG ANS -; SNG Lloyd -; SNG Copenhagen -; Basel 145 (same rev. die); Gulbenkian -. VF, toned, large die break and minor smoothing on reverse. This is the only listed specimen from this die pairing.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 70 (21 September 2005), lot 21; Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 100; R. Jameson Collection, no. 284; Gustav Philipsen Collection (Hirsch XV, 29 November 1909), lot 559.