452, Lot: 33. Estimate $200. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.79 g, 7h). Veiled head of Demeter right, wearing wreath of grain ears / , Barley ear with leaf to right; oinochoe above leaf, Φ below. Johnston Class A, 8.3 (same dies); HN Italy 1570; HGC 1, 1061. Toned, struck with worn obverse die, flan flaw on obverse, area of weak strike on reverse. VF.

From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from Collector Galleries, 9 February 2011.