339, Lot: 6. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 302 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.76 g, 4h). Nude youth on horseback riding right, crowning himself; below, ΣA above Ionic capital / Phalanthos on dolphin left, holding serpent; KON below. Fischer-Bossert Group 75, 968 (V376/R742); BMC 178 (same dies); Vlasto 654-8; HN Italy 942. VF, struck from worn dies, scratches in reverse field.
From Group SGF.
The reverse scratches are from antiquity as under magnification, there is horn silver inside the scratches.