CNG 97, Lot: 12. Estimate $2500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 330-290 BC. AR Nomos (18.5mm, 7.89 g, 8h). Wreathed head of Demeter facing slightly right; [tiny AΠ to lower right] / Barley ear with leaf to right; bucranium above leaf, AΘA below. Johnston Class C, 2.2 (same dies); HN Italy 1584; SNG ANS 463-4; SNG Fitzwilliam 503; SNG München 992; Dewing 388 (all from the same dies). VF, attractively toned.

Ex Kricheldorf FPL 76 (September/October 1964), no. 12.