Ex Claudius Côte Collection

CNG 100, Lot: 1234. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 385-380 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.98 g, 8h). Nude youth on horse prancing right; A to lower left / Phalanthos riding dolphin left, holding kantharos in extended right hand, left hand resting on dolphin; below, P above TAPAΣ. Fischer-Bossert Group 31a, 3452a (V199/R343 – this coin, illustrated) = Côte 165 (this coin); Vlasto 479 (same dies); HN Italy 880; SNG ANS 948 = Pozzi 117 (same dies); Dewing 148 (same dies). Good VF, toned, some die wear. Artistic dies.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Leu 36 (7 May 1985), lot 17; Peus 291 (30 March 1977), lot 110; Claudius Côte Collection (R. Ratto, 28 January 1929), lot 165.