Johnston Plate Coin

Triton XVII, Lot: 20. Estimate $5000. Sold for $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 330-290 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.83 g, 6h). Head of Demeter facing slightly right, wearing grain ear wreath, triple-pendant earrings, and necklace; tiny AΠ to lower right / Barley ear with leaf to right; META upward to left, bucranium above leaf, AΘA below. Johnston Class C, 2.2 (this coin); HN Italy 1584; SNG ANS 463-4; SNG Fitzwilliam 503; SNG München 992; Dewing 388 (all from the same dies). EF, toned, a few insignificant deposits. Exceptional for issue.

From the JMG Collection. Ex Tkalec (19 February 2001), lot 7.