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Ex Vlasto and 1912 Torre dell’Ovo Hoard

CNG 100, Lot: 1233. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 405-400 BC. AR Nomos (22.5mm, 7.80 g, 6h). Horseman riding horse leaping left; retrograde EΛ below / Phalanthos riding dolphin right, preparing to cast spear. Fischer-Bossert Group 22, 307f (V140/R238) = Vlasto 319 (this coin); HN Italy 850; SNG Ashmolean 247 = Nantueil 90 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 152 (same dies); SNG Lockett 153 (same dies). VF, attractive even gray tone with light iridescence, hairline flan crack, some die wear. Artistic dies.


Ex Leu FPL (1960), no. 64; Michel Pandely Vlasto Collection; 1912 Torre dell’Ovo Hoard (IGCH 1934).