An Extensive Offering of Tarentine

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 22. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 445-440 BC. AR Nomos (8.23 g, 1h). Phalanthos riding dolphin left, arms outstretched; TARAΣ behind, shell below / Oecist seated left, holding spindle in right hand and scepter in left. Fischer-Bossert group 14, 179 (V88/R128); Vlasto, Taras type 16C; Vlasto 194 (same obv. die); HN Italy 844; SNG ANS 849; SNG France 1673. VF, attractively toned. Well centered strike.

From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection.