Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 13. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $3400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 480-470 BC. AR Nomos (8.03 g). Phalanthos, both arms outstretched, riding dolphin left; retrograde TARAS behind, open cockle shell below / Wheel of four spokes; in one quarter, dolphin left. Fischer-Bossert 90 (V48/R59); Vlasto 93; HN Italy 833; SNG Lloyd 111; SNG ANS (vol. 5) 1234; SNG France 1595; SNG Copenhagen 770; Jameson 83 (all from the same dies). Good VF, toned, slight die break on reverse. Among the finest known.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 72 (14 June 2006), lot 69.