Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 137. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (7.86 gm). Wreathed and veiled head of Demeter right, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; K behind / META, barley ear of seven grains with leaf to right; API to left, bird flying left above leaf, snake below. Johnston Class A, 6.7 (same dies); SNG ANS 415 (same obverse die); SNG Lloyd 387 (same obverse die); HN Italy 1563. VF, well struck, test cut on reverse. ($300)

From the Tony Hardy Collection.