Triton XV, Lot: 1027. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Punic occupation. Circa 212-209 BC. AR Reduced Nomos – Half-Shekel (18mm, 3.71 g, 7h). Nude youth on horseback right, crowning horse with laurel wreath in his right hand, left hand on reins; ΚΛΗ above, ΣΗΡΑΜ−ΒΟΣ below / Phalanthos, holding aphlaston in extended right hand, cradling trident in left arm, astride dolphin left; monogram to right, T-A-PAΣ below. Vlasto 971; HN Italy 1078; SNG ANS 1263; SNG Lloyd 231; SNG Copenhagen 948. EF, lightly toned. Well centered.

From the Sierra Collection. Ex Ronald Cohen Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 28; Tkalec (24 October 2003), lot 12.