Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 46. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 340-335 BC. AR Nomos (7.52 g, 1h). Nude youth on horseback right, crowning horse; below, nude youth attending to horse’s hoof; Φ to right / Phalanthos, holding kantharos, shield, and trident, on dolphin left; below, E above waves. Fischer-Bossert group 50, 695 (V262/R542); Vlasto 510; HN Italy 888; SNG ANS 961; SNG Manchester 104; Côte 206; Hirsch 93 (all from the same dies). Near VF, some roughness on reverse. Rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 37 (part of).

Fischer-Bossert lists 15 examples from this die pairing, and 110 coins overall for his group 50, from 10 die pairings (2 obverse and 8 reverse).