Ex Côte and Weber Collections

Triton XIX, Lot: 2005. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 320 BC. AV Diobol – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 1.40 g, 11h). Head of Persephone right, wearing a stephanos, ornamented with a palmette, and single-pendant earring; K to left; to right, |- above M above Φ / The infant Taras squatting facing, head right, holding distaff in left hand, wool in right; [TA]PAΣ to left; below, dolphin right. Fischer-Bossert G8j (V7/R8) = Côte 195 = Weber 545 (this coin); Vlasto 7; HN Italy 903; SNG ANS 956; SNG Lloyd 181; Boston MFA 64 = Warren 37; Gulbenkian 30 = Vlasto 8; Jameson 151; de Luynes 252; McClean 598 (all from the same dies). Good VF, a few tiny marks on obverse, slight scratch in field on reverse. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, August 2007. Ex Spink 96 (31 March 1993), lot 5; Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933), lot 78; Claudius Côte Collection (R. Ratto, 28 January 1929), lot 195; Sir Hermann Weber Collection, 545, purchased from H. Hoffman, 1889.