Ex Moretti Collection
Triton XXII, Lot: 54. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 290-280 BC. AR Nomos (22mm, 7.89 g, 11h). Head of Demeter right, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace; wreath behind neck / Barley ear with leaf to right; META upward to left; to right, radiate head of Helios facing above ear, ΦI below. Johnston Class D, 5.1 (same dies); HN Italy 1627; UBS 56, lot 30 (same dies). Near EF, attractive cabinet tone.
From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Waddell inventory 51906 (February 2015); Gorny & Mosch 200 (10 October 2011), lot 1129; Numismatica Ars Classica P (12 May 2005), lot 1071; A. D. Moretti Collection.