Sale: Triton X, Lot: 40. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Nomos (7.88 g, 9h). Head of Demeter right, wearing diadem, triple-pendant earring, and necklace; torch behind / META, barley ear of seven grains with leaf to right; |-H above leaf. Johnston class A, 5.1 (same obv. die as illustration); HN Italy 1554; SNG ANS 408; SNG Lloyd -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Lockett 411 (same obv. die). Good VF, iridescent toning. Rare.