Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 44. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 344-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.84 g, 3h). Warrior, wearing helmet and holding shield and rein, on horseback left; Δ below / Phalanthos, holding kantharos, on dolphin left; below, E above dolphin left in waves. Fischer-Bossert group 46, 651 (V251/R503); Vlasto 388 var. (E retrograde; same obv. die); HN Italy 870; SNG Lloyd 159 (same dies); SNG Lockett 158 = Côte 136 (same dies). VF, minor porosity, die rust on reverse. Very rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Noble 52 (13 November 1996), lot 1842.

Fischer-Bossert lists 17 examples from this die pairing, not including this coin, and 76 coins overall for his group 46, from 5 die pairings (1 obverse and 5 reverse).