Triton XXII, Lot: 9. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 470-465 BC. AR Nomos (18mm, 8.11 g, 7h). Taras, nude, both arms outstretched, riding dolphin left; TAPAS to right, scallop shell below / Hippocamp left. Fischer-Bossert Group 5, 103 (V52/R67); Vlasto 134 (same dies); HN Italy 827; Gillet 52; Washburn King 607 (same dies). Good VF, toned, overstruck on uncertain type, area of die rust on reverse.

From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 94 (18 September 2013), lot 13; Numismatica Ars Classica Q (6 April 2006), lot 1035.