From the Lockett and Vlasto Collections

Triton XVII, Lot: 17. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (18mm, 7.85 g, 5h). Head of Demeter left, wearing wreath of grain ears, single-pendant earring, and necklace / Barley ear with leaf to right; to left, kerykeion above ΛY; M-ET[A] upward to right. Johnston Class A, 1.2 = SNG Lloyd 372 (same dies); HN Italy 1556; SNG ANS 401 (same rev. die); SNG Lloyd –; SNG Lockett 420 (this coin). Near EF, lightly toned, minor die rust and die break on obverse. Fine style.

Ex Nomos 6 (8 May 2012), lot 6; Leu 81 (16 May 2001 [‘Outstanding Collection’]), lot 18; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Glendining's, 25 October 1955), lot 306; M.P. Vlasto Collection.