Ex Virgil Brand Collection

Triton XXII, Lot: 15. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 540-510 BC. AR Nomos (28mm, 8.10 g, 12h). Ear of barley with eight grains, bracts at base; MET down left field / Incuse ear of barley with eight grains. Noe Class I, 20–1; HN Italy 1459; SNG ANS 169; SNG Lloyd 293; Locker-Lampson 17. Good VF, toned.

From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex CNG inventory 422773 (January 2016); Byron Schieber Collection; Virgil Brand Collection (Part 7, Sotheby’s, 25 October 1984), lot 12.