Triton XIV, Lot: 8. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 290-280 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.80 g, 1h). Head of Persephone right, wearing grain ear wreath, triple-pendant earring, and necklace; ΔI to left / Ear of barley with seven grains and leaf to right; META and ant to left; to right, above leaf, cornucopia surmounted by two ears of barley, [ΦI below leaf]. Johnston class D, 4.13 (same dies); HN Italy 1577; SNG ANS 516 (same rev. die); SNG Lloyd -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Ashmoleon 780 (same dies); Basel -; Gulbenkian -. EF, darkly toned, minor die wear on obverse. Rare.