Pedigreed to 1934

Triton XIX, Lot: 6. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 333-331/0 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.92 g, 2h). 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, ΦI below. Fischer-Bossert Group 58, 752a (V291/R584 – this coin); Vlasto 542 = CNG 40, lot 586 (same dies); HN Italy 896; BMC 213; Winterthur 228. EF, attractive old collection toning, a little die wear, slight die shift on reverse. Struck from highly artistic dies.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, April 1987. Ex A. Hess (2 February 1934), lot 39.