Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 19. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $275. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 465-455 BC. AR Nomos (8.07 g, 9h). Phalanthos riding dolphin left, arms extended; cockle shell below / Hippocamp left. Fischer-Bossert, group 7, 109 (V56/R71); Vlasto 133 (same dies); HN Italy 827; SNG ANS 840; SNG Lloyd 117-8; SNG Copenhagen 776; SNG Lockett 124; Hirsch 81; Ward 21 (all from the same dies). VF, die break on obverse, some porosity. Rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Triton X (9 January 2007), lot 1486 (part of).

Fischer-Bossert lists 34 examples from this die pairing, not including the present coin, and 84 coins overall for his group 4, from 9 die pairings (6 obverse and 8 reverse).