Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 198. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $385. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.60 g, 8h). Diademed head of Nike right; NIKA on truncation of neck / Barley ear of seven grains with leaf to right; quince above leaf. Noe 490 (same dies); HN Italy 1543; SNG ANS 369 (same obv. die); McClean 991 (same dies). VF, lightly toned. Rare, Noe records only 2 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.