Three Pedigreed Tarentum Gold Pieces

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1008. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 320 BC. AV Diobol – 1/6 Stater (1.41 g, 4h). Head of Hera right, wearing stephane; K behind, [|-] M Φ before / The infant Taras crouching facing, head right, holding spindle and ball of wool; below, dolphin right. Fischer-Bossert G8i (V7/R8) = Ward 27 (this coin); Vlasto 6-7; HN Italy 903; SNG ANS 956; SNG Lloyd 181; Boston MFA 64 = Warren 37; Jameson 151; Gulbenkian 30 (all from the same dies). Fine, light scratches and bruises on reverse. Very rare.

Ex Vinchon (24 November 1994), lot 6; Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sotheby's - Zurich, 4 April 1973), lot 19; John Ward Collection, 27.

Although Fisher-Bossert places this issue circa 320 BC, HN Italy attributes it to the time of Alexander the Molossian, circa 334-332 BC.