CNG 90, Lot: 310. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 290-280 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 7.83 g, 1h). Head of Herakles right, wearing tainia; club behind / Grain ear with leaf to right; kantharos above leaf, BI below. Johnston Class D, 4.2 (same dies); HN Italy 1621 corr. (control letters on rev.). Near EF, toned, underlying luster, slightly weak strike in centers. Exceptional style.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 49 (17 March 1999), lot 88.

Both Johnston and HN Italy note the reverse control letters for this series (D4.1-3) as being f5, but even the plate coins in Johnston show the letters to be ∫5.