Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 45. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $445. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 344-340 BC. AR Nomos (7.44 g, 11h). Warrior, wearing helmet and holding spear and shield, standing facing, head right, behind horse standing right; |- to right / Phalanthos, holding trident and shield, on dolphin left; below, A above waves. Fischer-Bossert group 48, 679 (V259/R526); Vlasto 518 (same obv. die); HN Italy 889; SNG Lloyd 175 (same dies); Pozzi (Boutin) 336-7 (same dies). VF, dark find patina. Very rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.

Fischer-Bossert lists 13 examples from this die pairing, not including this coin, and 166 coins overall for his group 48, from 14 die pairings (4 obverse and 12 reverse). This particular obverse die is the sole die to feature this standing warrior scene.