Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 4927 Session 16 (9.30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $500
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SOLD $500
ITALY, Lucania, Metapontum, (c.300 B.C.), silver stater or nomos, (7.826 grams), obv. three quarter facing bust of Demeter partially to right, wearing corn wreath, to right in field A[G], rev. ear of corn, META upwards to left, **A[QA]* to right, leaf with bucranium above, (S.417; BMC 117 [same dies]; Johnston [NN&M 164] Class C, 2.5 [same dies]). Nearly very fine and very rare.
Johnston records nine known specimens of this facing Demeter type all from three different obverse dies. This specimen has one recored specimen with both the same obverse and reverse die.
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