Ex R.C. Lockett, British Museum, and Sir Richard Payne Knight Collections

300, Lot: 3. Estimate $1000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.49 g, 6h). Laureate head of Zeus right / Six-grained barley ear with leaf to right; [poppy seed] and K[AΛ] to right. Johnston A6.2 (same dies); SNG Lockett 410 (this coin); HN Italy 1558. Good VF, toned, large reverse die break. Attractive style and impressive pedigree.

Ex R.C. Lockett Collection (Glendining’s, 25 October 1955), lot 296; Duplicates from the British Museum Collection (Naville V, 18 June 1923), lot 462; Sir Richard Payne Knight Collection.