Ancient Gold - Byzantine
Lot 1957 SESSION 11 (7.30PM WEDNESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER) Ancient Gold - Byzantine
Estimate $2,000
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ITALY, Lucania, Metapontum, (c.330-290 B.C.), silver nomos, stater or didrachm, (7.84 g), obv. head of Demeter to left, rev. seven grain barley ear, leaf to right with pitchfork and **D*A, META to right, (cf.S.410, Johnston Class C, 5, HN Italy 1582). Toned, very fine and rare.
Ex Anthony "Tony" Taylor Collection.^Noble Numismatics Sale 124, lot 2941. Previously D.F.Grotjohann.
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