From the Desneux and Colgate Collections
1905 Carosino Hoard

Triton XVIII, Lot: 314. Estimate $5000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 333-331/0 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.81 g, 3h). Nude warrior, shield on left arm, holding two spears in left hand, preparing to cast a third held aloft in his right hand, on horse rearing right; |- to left, Λ to right; below, KAΛ above A / Phalanthos, nude, holding crested helmet with both hands, astride dolphin right; TAPAΣ to left, stars flanking, API below. Fischer-Bossert Group 60, 770h (V303/R598) = Locker Lampson 13 = Q. Quagliati, “Quattro tesoretti di monete greche rinvenuti a Carosino, Monacizzo, Motola, Francavilla Fontana” in AttiMemIIN VI (1930), p. 27, 28 (this coin); Vlasto 543; HN Italy 896; SNG ANS 967; Gulbenkian 32; Jameson 138; McClean 592 (all from the same dies). Choice EF, wonderful dark cabinet tone.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 81 (16 May 2001), lot 9; Jules Desneux Collection (Hess-Leu 49, 27 April 1971), lot 14; Arthur Colgate Collection (Ars Classica XVI, 3 July 1933), lot 73; 1905 Carosino Hoard (IGCH 1928) .