Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 17. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Time of Pyrrhos of Epiros. Circa 280-275 BC. AV Stater (8.49 gm). Struck circa 280 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / [T]ARANTINWN, eagle standing right, with wings spread, on thunderbolt; Phrygian helmet and APOL (magistrate) before. Vlasto -; SNG ANS -; SNG Lloyd -; SNG Copenhagen -; Jameson -; Gulbenkian -; Pozzi -; Weber -; BMC Italy pg. 160, 4 = Vlasto, "The Late Mr. E. P. Warren's Hoard of Tarentine Horsemen and Other Contributions to Tarentine Numismatics," in NumChron 1930, pl. xii, 9 (same dies); HN Italy 983. Nice VF, well centered. Extremely rare symbol. ($7500)

From the James A. Ferrendelli Collection. Ex Triton II (1-2 December 1998), lot 48.