318, Lot: 17. Estimate $300. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 290-280 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.83 g, 2h). Head of Persephone right, wearing grain ear wreath / Barley ear with leaf to right; ant to left; cornucopia surmounted by two ears of barley above leaf, [ΦΙ] below leaf. Johnston Class D, 4.13 (same dies); SNG ANS 516 (same rev. die); HN Italy 1624. Good VF, darkly toned, die break on cheek.