Pedigreed to 1934

CNG 103, Lot: 16. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 333-331/0 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.92 g, 2h). Warrior, holding two spears and shield, raising third spear overhead, on horse rearing right; |- to left, Λ to right; below, KAΛ above A / Phalanthos, holding crested helmet, riding dolphin right; stars flanking, ΦI below. Fischer-Bossert Group 58, 752a (V291/R584 – this coin); Vlasto 542 = CNG 40, lot 586 (same dies); HN Italy 896. 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.