52, Lot: 11. Estimate $250. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 280 BC. AR Nomos (7.80 gm). Wreathed head of Demeter right, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace [DI] behind / Six-grained barley ear, leaf to right; two amphoras and a star above leaf; META left, F[I] below. Johnston Class D, 4.15-17; SNG ANS 517. Good VF, polished (which may account for the missing letters noted above). ($250)

From the John M. McCarthy Collection