Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 238. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 330-290 BC. AR Nomos (7.74 g, 8h). Helmeted head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet; ΣA behind / Barley ear of seven grains with leaf to right; owl and grasshopper on leaf, AΘA between ear and leaf. Johnston Class C, 3.3 (same dies); HN Italy 1585; SNG Lloyd 393 (same dies). VF.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.