From the Moretti Collection

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 39. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.73 g, 4h). Head of Demeter facing slightly right, wearing wreath of barley ears and necklace with pendants; [SWTH]RIA above / META, barley ear of seven grains with leaf to right. Noe 449; HN Italy 1523; SNG ANS 342; SNG Lloyd -; Basel 142 (this coin); Gulbenkian 68; Jameson 326; McClean 937-8 (all from the same dies). EF, attractively toned, small die break on cheek. Rare.

From the David Herman Collection. Ex Sammlung Ludwig (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 142.