Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 199. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 400-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.64 g, 12h). Head of Demeter right, hair in net / Barley ear of seven grains with leaf to right; laurel leaf above leaf. Noe 494; HN Italy 1544; BMC 133; Hunterian 48; McClean 966 (all from the same dies). VF, lightly toned, some light cleaning scratches. Rare, Noe records 6 examples.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.