Ex Vlasto and Côte Collections and 1919 Taranto Find

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 96. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 325/0-315 BC. AR Nomos (7.84 g, 5h). Nude youth on horseback right, crowning horse; ΣA to left; below, owl standing left, head facing; -| below horse’s raised foreleg / Phalanthos, holding kantharos, on dolphin left; H to left, ΣA below. Fischer-Bossert group 65, 802a (V316/R622) = Vlasto 664 = Côte 285 (this coin); HN Italy 946. Good VF, attractively toned.

Ex Peus 380 (3 November 2004), lot 75; M.P. Vlasto Collection, 664; Claudius Côte Collection (R. Ratto, 28 January 1929), lot 285; 1919 Taranto Hoard (IGCH 1933).