Triton XVII, Lot: 6. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 280 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 7.91 g, 8h). Nude warrior, wearing crested helmet and shield on left arm, holding rein in right hand, on horse advancing left; retrograde EY to left, NIKO/ΔAM/OΣ in three lines below / Phalanthos, holding grape bunch by branch in extended right hand and cradling distaff in left arm, riding dolphin left; TAPAΣ to left; to right, cock standing left; AΓA below. Vlasto 707 (this coin); HN Italy 970; SNG ANS –; SNG Lloyd –; Jameson 168 (same dies). EF, attractively toned, minor flat strike on head of warrior. Well centered on a broad flan.

Ex Nomos 6 (8 May 2012), lot 4; Leu 81 (16 May 2001 [‘Outstanding Collection’]), lot 13; M. P. Vlasto Collection, 707; J. J. Charvet Collection (Rollin & Feuardent, 30 April 1903), lot 25.