Ex Maly, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Ward Collections

CNG 85, Lot: 157. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Nomos (22mm, 8.02 g, 5h). Oikist seated left, holding kantharos and staff; altar to left / Phalanthos riding dolphin right, holding out his arm; shell below. Fischer-Bossert group 17, 245f (V117/R184) = Vlasto, Taras 33n = Ward 23 (this coin); Vlasto 212; HN Italy 844; SNG Ashmoleon 227-8; BMC 85-6; de Luynes 281-2; McClean 556 (all from the same dies). VF, toned, minor die flaw on obverse, a little off center.

Ex R. Maly Collection (LHS 100, 23 April 2007), lot 32; Peus 332 (23 October 1991), lot 6; Sotheby’s (23 March 1987), lot 325; Spink Numismatic Circular XCIII.2 (March 1985), no. 723; Spink Numismatic Circular LXXXI.12 (December 1973), no. 9611; Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sotheby's - Zurich, 4 April 1973), lot 16 [dontated as a gift by J.P. Morgan]; John Ward Collection.

While the Oikist coinage is fairly extensive, this coin is from one of the very few issues (only 3 die pairings) that feature him on the obverse.