Triton XVII, Lot: 15. Estimate $3000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.98 g, 11h). Female head left, hair held in back by net, wearing loop earring and pearl necklace / Barley ear with leaf to right; METAΠ upward to left, ivy leaf to right. Noe 519 (same dies); HN Italy 1546; SNG ANS –; SNG Lloyd –; Pozzi 179 (same dies); McClean 968/969 (same obv./rev. die). Superb EF, lightly toned, insignificant die wear on reverse. Fine style.

From the JMG Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 25 (25 June 2003), lot 25; Numismatica Ars Classica 6 (11 March 1993), lot 35.