Choice Early Tarentine Nomos

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 11. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 445-440 BC. AR Nomos (7.78 g, 12h). Phalanthos riding dolphin left, arms outstretched; shell below / Oecist seated left, holding spindle and scepter. Fischer-Bossert group 14, 183 (V89/R131); Vlasto, Taras type 16C; Vlasto 191 (same dies); HN Italy 844; SNG ANS 849; SNG France 1673; SNG Lloyd -; SNG Lewis 183 (same dies). EF, toned, struck from worn obverse die as usual.

From the W.B. and R.E. Montgomery Collection.