Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 25. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 344-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.90 g, 3h). Nude youth on horseback right, crowning horse with wreath held in extended right hand; K and upright club below / Phalanthos riding dolphin left, holding kantharos in extended right hand, trident and shield in left; TAP-A-Σ behind, Ω and waves below. Fischer-Bossert group 49, 685 (V260/R532); Vlasto 509 (same dies); HN Italy 887; SNG ANS 960; SNG France 1757-8 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 173 (same dies). EF, some horn silver on edge. Exceptionally sharp detail, well centered on a broad flan.

Ex LHS 100 (23 April 2007), lot 61.