Ex Weber Collection – Pedigreed to 1887

452, Lot: 29. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Punic occupation. Circa 212-209 BC. AR Reduced Nomos – Half-Shekel (19.5mm, 3.86 g, 5h). Warrior, wearing full armor, holding filleted palm frond, on horse walking right; ΣΩKΛN-NΛ below / Phalanthos, holding kantharos and trident, riding dolphin left; to right, eagle standing left, wings spread. Vlasto 984–6; HN Italy 1082; Weber 690 (this coin). Attractive collection tone, minor die wear. Good VF. Well centered.

From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from Collector Galleries, 20 November 2010. Ex Heritage 3006 (10 September 2009), lot 20004; Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 25; Hess-Leu 36 (17 April 1968), lot 20; Naville IV (17 June 1922), lot 55; Sir Hermann Weber Collection, purchased from “Gabrielli” in Naples, 1887.