380, Lot: 7. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Nomos (24mm, 8.11 g, 3h). Taras riding dolphin right, both arms outstretched; cockle shell below / Oecist seated left, holding distaff and scepter. Fischer-Bossert Group 12, 172 (V83/R121); Vlasto 186; HN Italy 844. VF, toned, struck from a worn obverse die.

Ex Astarte XX (30 October 2009), lot 9 (hammer 2000 CHF).