Ex Moretti and Stevenson – Fischer-Bossert Plate Coin

CNG 100, Lot: 4. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 276-272 BC. AV Triobol – Quarter Stater (10.5mm, 2.10 g, 11h). Head of Apollo right, with long hair, wearing laurel wreath; NK monogram to left / Eagle standing right, wings spread, on thunderbolt; to inner right, small owl standing right, head facing; [TA]PANTINΩN to outer right, ZA in exergue. Fischer-Bossert G48c (V42/R48) = Basel 99 (this coin, plate coin in F-B); Vlasto 59 (same dies); HN Italy 986; Sternberg XVI, lot 21 = Münzen und Medaillen AG 37, 19 (same dies). Near EF, lightly toned, a couple light marks in field on reverse. Extremely rare variety with these control marks, one of only three noted by Fischer-Bossert, none in CoinArchives.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, April 1999. Ex Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 288; George & Robert Stevenson Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXVI, 11 June 1993), lot 13.