318, Lot: 6. Estimate $150. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 425-415 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 7.46 g, 9h). Contemporary local imitation. Taras riding dolphin left, holding sepia; cockle shell below / Oecist seated left, holding dove(?). Fischer-Bossert N´ 43 = Vlasto 257 (this coin); cf. HN Italy 844. Near VF, lightly toned, areas of roughness.

Ex M.P. Vlasto Collection; Claudius Côte Collection (R. Ratto, 28 January 1929), lot 94; 1920 Lecce Hoard (IGCH 1903).