From the Maly & Hermitage Collections

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 24. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 365-355 BC. AR Nomos (7.78 g, 8h). Nude youth on horseback right; Δ below / Phalanthos riding dolphin left, holding kantharos in extended right hand, left hand on dolphin; Δ and TAPAΣ below. Fischer-Bossert group 40, 613g (V240/R469) = K. Schefold, Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst (Basel, 1960), 526 (this coin); Vlasto 471-2 (same dies); HN Italy 880; SNG ANS 945 (same dies); SNG France 1739 (same dies). Near EF, attractive cabinet toning. Fine style.

Ex Dr. Roland Maly Collection (LHS 100, 23 April 2007), lot 54; Leu 91 (10 May 2004), lot 7; Münzen und Medaillen 79 (28 February 1994), lot 24; Schlessinger 13 [Hermitage] (4 February 1935), lot 54.