Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1074. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 240-228 BC. AR Nomos (6.65 gm). Youth on horse leaping right; XWPURIWN below, bucranium below forelegs, SW above bucranium / T-ARAS below, Taras astride dolphin left, holding hippocamp in extended right hand, trident against left arm; monogram and mask of Silenos right. Vlasto 941 (same obverse die); SNG ANS 1246ff. Superb EF, from a wonderfully executed die that captures the movement of horse and rider. ($750)

From the William N. Rudman Collection. Ex Italo Vecchi Auction II (12-13 September 1996), lot 115.