From the Côte and Pozzi Collections

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 26. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Nomos (7.92 g, 1h). Phalanthos riding dolphin left; cockle shell below / Taras as Oikistes seated left, holding distaff and staff. Fischer-Bossert group 17, 250c (V118’/R187) = Vlasto, Taras type 20B, b = Côte 74 = Pozzi (Boutin) 312 (this coin); Vlasto 200; HN Italy 844; Berlin 73 (same dies). Near VF, toned, light porosity, a few scratches under tone on obverse. Rare die combination.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Claudius Côte Collection (R. Ratto, 28 January 1929), lot 74; S. Pozzi Collection, 312 (Boutin catalog).

Fischer-Bossert lists 8 examples from this die pairing, and 261 coins overall for his group 17, from 21 die pairings (9 obverse and 22 reverse).