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Triton XVII, Lot: 11. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Punic occupation. Circa 212-209 BC. AR Reduced Nomos – Half-Shekel (18mm, 3.89 g, 10h). Nude youth, crowning horse with laurel wreath in his right hand, left hand holding filleted palm frond over should, riding horse right; KPITO-Σ below / Phalanthos, cradling trident in left arm, holding in extended right hand, Nike, who crowns him with wreath held in both hand, astride dolphin left; EK monogram to left, ZΩ monogram to right; TA-PAΣ below. Vlasto 978–80; HN Italy 1080; SNG ANS 1269 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd –; SNG France 2067 = de Luynes 317 (same dies); Dewing –. Superb EF, toned, underlying luster. Wonderful strike.


Ex Spink 183 (26 September 2006), lot 532.