Pedigreed to 1956

449, Lot: 6. Estimate $500. Sold for $1504. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 8.03 g, 5h). Obverse die signed by the engraver Aristoxenos. Wreathed head of Demeter right; barley grain behind, [API on neck] / Grain ear with leaf to left. Noe 440 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 347 (same dies); HN Italy 1522; HGC 1, 1045. Old cabinet toning. VF.

Ex Peus 274 (29 October 1970), lot 1511; Hess-Leu (27 March 1956), lot 22.