From the King and Waldeck Collections

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 10. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 480-470 BC. AR Nomos (7.64 g). Phalanthos riding dolphin right; cockle shell below / Wheel of four spokes. Fischer-Bossert, group 4, 81f’ (V41/R55) = C.C. Vermeule, “Greek Coins in the Elisabeth Washburn King Collection at Bryn Mawr College,” NC 1956, 6 (this coin); Vlasto 74 (same dies); HN Italy 833; Boston MFA 47 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 767 (same dies); Jameson 82 (same dies). VF, toned, a little granular. Rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Noble 41 (17 March 1993), lot 2125; Elisabeth Washburn King Collection (Christie’s New York, 11 December 1992), lot 606 [purchased from J. Hirsch, 1940]; Prince Waldeck Collection (Münzhandlung Basel 8, 22 March 1937), lot 12.

Fischer-Bossert lists 45 examples from this die pairing.