Triton XXI, Lot: 305. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 480-470 BC. AR Nomos (18.5mm, 8.04 g). Phalanthos, nude, riding dolphin right, extending right hand, left hand placed on dolphin’s back; retrograde TARAS to left / Wheel with four spokes. Fischer-Bossert Group 4, 81 (V41/R55); Vlasto 74 (same dies); HN Italy 833; SNG Ashmolean 204 = Pozzi 111; Boston MFA 47 = Warren 17; Dewing 128; Jameson 82; McClean 529 (all the same dies). Near EF, attractive cabinet tone, overstruck on a stater of Corinth, with traces visible (likely of type Ravel second period, 1st class).

From the J. L. Gomer Collection. Ex Hess-Divo 326 (28 May 2014), lot 7; Numismatica Genevensis SA 7 (27 November 2012), lot 122; Lawrence Stack Collection (Stack’s, 14 January 2008), lot 2009; Waddell FPL (December 2005), no. 6.