Details
LOT 2877
Lucania, Metapontion AR Didrachm or Nomos. Circa 400-340 BC.
Head of Demeter to right, wearing sphendone and pendant earring / META, grain ear with leaf to right. HGC 1, 1052. Near Very Fine.(7.32gr, 20mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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