Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 9. Estimate $4000. Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004. Sold For $3300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Time of Alexander the Molossian. Circa 334-330 BC. AV Stater (8.59 gm). Struck circa 334-332 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress /
TARANTI[NWN], Taras, wearing chlamys, driving biga right, holding trident in left hand, reins in right; AP(ligate)I (magistrate) below horses, thunderbolt in exergue. Vlasto 11 (same dies); SNG ANS -; SNG Lloyd -; SNG Copenhagen Supp. 33 (same dies); Jameson 158 var. (magistrate); Gulbenkian -; Pozzi -; Weber 553 (same dies); HN Italy -. VF. Very rare. ($4000)
From the James A. Ferrendelli Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 40 (with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 588.