Ex Vlasto Collection

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 66. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $470. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 280-272 BC. AR Nomos (6.40 g, 9h). Nude youth on horseback left; to left, nude male standing right, crowning horse; ΓY to right, API/ΣTI/[Π] in three lines below / Phalanthos, holding bow and arrow, on dolphin right; below, ΔI and elephant right. Vlasto 734 (this coin); HN Italy 1000; SNG Ashmolean 323 (same dies). VF, toned, some areas of minor roughness.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex M.P. Vlasto Collection, 734.