Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 49. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 290-280 BC. AR Nomos (7.82 gm, 5h). Wreathed head of Demeter right, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; D behind / Ear of barley with seven grains, leaf to right; above leaf, star above two amphoras; FI below leaf. Johnston Class D, 4.16 (same dies); SNG ANS 517 (same dies); HN Italy 1625. EF, toned with underlying luster, struck with slightly worn obverse die. ($750)