CNG 87, Lot: 116. Estimate $2500. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 490-480 BC. AR Nomos (18mm, 7.98 g, 11h). Phalanthos riding dolphin right, holding cuttlefish, left hand extended / Hippocamp right; cockle shell below. Fischer-Bossert group 3, 58b (V25/R45 – this coin); Vlasto 99 = Weber 520 (same dies); HN Italy 827. Good VF, toned, minor roughness on reverse.

Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 60 (5 October 1992), lot 11; Hesperia Art Bulletin 34 (undated), no. 1; Hess-Leu 45 (1970), lot 6.