Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 21. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 380-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.44 g, 11h). Head of Arethusa right / Seven-grained barley ear with leaf to right; IW above leaf. Noe 508a (this coin); SNG ANS -; Jameson 284 (this coin); HN Italy 1538. VF, toned, large die break and minor smoothing on reverse. This is the only listed specimen from this die pairing, and apparently unique. ($500)

Ex Triton I (2-3 December 1997), lot 100; R. Jameson Collection, no. 284; Gustav Philipsen Collection (Hirsch XV, 29 November 1909), lot 559.

The obverse die of this coin is an obvious copy of the Euainetos heads of Syracuse.