CNG 109, Lot: 22. Estimate $1500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Punic occupation. Circa 215-207 BC. AR Quarter Shekel (15mm, 1.77 g, 11h). Wreathed head of Demeter right / Two barley ears; crossed torch to right. Robinson, Second, pl. VI, 9; HN Italy 1636. Superb EF, attractively toned, underlying luster.

Ex Berk BBS 102 (27 May 1998), lot 122; Berk BBS 94 (16 January 1997), lot 88.