Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 21. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Time of Pyrrhos of Epiros. Circa 280-275 BC. AV Tenth-Stater (0.84 gm). Struck circa 280 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress; NK monogram below / TAR-AS, nude Taras astride dolphin left, holding kantharos in extended right hand, trident in left. Vlasto 43; SNG ANS 1401; SNG Lloyd 187; SNG Copenhagen 836 var. (AP monogram); Jameson 162; Gulbenkian -; Pozzi 119; Weber 552 (same dies); HN Italy 992. Near VF, reverse double struck. ($1500)

From the James A. Ferrendelli Collection. Ex Triton II (1-2 December 1998), lot 49; Leu 38 (13 May 1986), lot 6; Bement Collection (Naville VI, 28 January 1924), lot 97.