Ex Berlin and Löbbecke Collections

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 145. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 320-315 BC. AV Stater (8.48 g, 7h). Wreathed head of Hera left, hair in ampyx; three dolphins around / Taras on horseback right, crowning horse; above, Nike flying right, crowning him; dolphin to left, ΣA [and star] below. Fischer-Bossert G11.f (V9/R11) = Vlasto, Or L.2.g (this coin); Vlasto 24 (same obv. die); HN Italy 954 (circa 302 BC). Fine, ex-jewelry, holed and plugged at top of obverse. Very rare, one of only six examples from these dies cited by Fischer-Bossert.

From the J. Olphin Collection. Ex ‘Continental’ Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXIII, 13 October 1992), lot 53; Doubletten des Königsliche Münzkabinett Berlin (J. Hirsch XXVI, 23 May 1910), lot 14; Arthur Löbbecke Collection.