Nearly 100 Year Old Pedigree

225, Lot: 5. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Nomos (22mm, 7.39 g, 1h). Phalanthos riding dolphin left, holding acrostolion and shield; below, fish left / Oecist seated left, holding distaff, strigil and lekythos suspended by a string; before him, panther cub. Fischer-Bossert N29 = Vlasto, Taras 47a (this coin); Vlasto 233; HN Italy 844. Near VF, toned, slightly off center.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica Q (6 April 2006), lot 1037; Auctiones 23 (17 June 1993), lot 184; Garrucci Collection (J. Hirsch XXX, 11 May 1911), lot 104.