CNG 102, Lot: 46. Estimate $3000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (20.5mm, 7.58 g, 9h). Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath; EΛEY[ΘEPIOΣ] to right, Δ to left / Barley ear with seven grains and leaf to left; to left, crouching Silenos above leaf, [A]Δ below; META to right. Johnston Class A, 2.1 (same dies as illustration); HN Italy 1557; SNG ANS 451 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 373 (same obv. die); SNG München 988 (same obv. die); SNG Manchester 202 (same dies); Basel –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –. Good VF, toned, faint roughness. Fine style.