CNG 91, Lot: 53. Estimate $200. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Paestum (Poseidonia). Early 1st century BC. Æ Sextans (16mm, 3.60 g, 3h). Wreathed head of Demeter right; [two pellets (mark of value) behind neck] / Forepart of boar right; two pellets (mark of value) below. Crawford, Paestum 5/3a; HN Italy 1193. Good VF, attractive green patina with a patch of brown on reverse.

From the Greenpoint Collection.