CNG 111, Lot: 27. Estimate $750. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 430-400 BC. AR Nomos (22.5mm, 7.55 g, 7h). Wreathed head of Apollo Karneios right / Ear of barley with eight grains and leaf to left. Noe 335 (same dies); HN Italy 1508; SNG ANS 286–7 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 1187 (same obv. die). VF, toned, graffito on obverse.

From the Ealing Collection. Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 67, 22 September 2004), lot 130; Numismatica Ars Classica K (30 March 2000), lot 1049.