CNG 90, Lot: 294. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 480-470 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.70 g). Phalanthos riding dolphin right; cockle shell below / Wheel of four spokes. Fischer-Bossert 81, c’ (V41/R55 – this coin); Vlasto 74 (same dies); HN Italy 833; SNG Copenhagen 767 (same dies); Boston MFA 47 (same dies); Jameson 82 (same dies). VF, toned. Good metal.

Ex Superior (6 June 1986), lot 858; Malter FPL XIII (Spring/Summer 1965), no. X2; Gans 16 (19 April 1960), lot 26; Naville V (18 June 1923), lot 231.

Please note that the cast of this coin used to illustrate it in the Naville sale was apparently damaged on the reverse, and thus exhibits characteristics not found on the actual coin. The subsequent sales use photographs of the coin, rather than a cast of it, verifying that the damage visible in the Naville sale illustration is to the cast, not the coin.