211, Lot: 133. Estimate $500.
Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CALABRIA. Tarentum. Ten Silver Fractions. Includes:
1) Circa 480-470 BC. Hexante – 1/6 Litra. Cockle shell / Wheel. Vlasto 1117 //
2) Circa 470-450 BC. Litra. Cockle shell within linear circle / Female head left. Vlasto 1167 //
3) As last, but Hemilitron. Vlasto 1186 (this coin) //
4) Circa 380-325 BC. Litra. Female head right / Dolphin left; P below. Vlasto 1208 (this coin) //
5) Circa 380-325 BC. Diobol. Helmeted head of Athena left / Herakles strangling the Nemean Lion. Vlasto 1236 //
6) As last. Vlasto 1238 //
7) As last. Vlasto 1395 //
8) As last, but Athena head right. Vlasto 1274 //
9) As last, but probably modern forgery //
10) As last, but Herakles seated on the Nemean Lion. Vlasto 1239 (same dies). Fair to VF condition, some off center, surface roughness and porosity. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. 10 coins in lot.
From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Also: 3) Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CVIII.4 (August 2000), no. 2878; Claudius Côte Collection (R. Ratto, 28 January 1929), lot 58; M.P. Vlasto Collection, 1186; 4) Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CVIII.4 (August 2000), no. 2880; M.P. Vlasto Collection, 1208; 5) Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXIV (9 December 1992), lot 152; 8) Ex Buckland, Dix and Woods 6 (1 June 1994), lot 503 (part of).
