Ex Vlasto Collection

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 58. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $485. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 302-290 BC. AR Nomos (7.79 g, 2h). Warrior, wearing helmet, holding shield and two spears, preparing to cast a third, on horseback right; monogram to left, ΣA below / Phalanthos, holding trident and shield decorated with hippocamp, on dolphin left; ΦI to left, conch shell below. Fischer-Bossert group 76, 985f (V382/R756 - this coin illustrated) = Vlasto 598 (this coin); HN Italy 935; Pozzi 120 (same dies); McClean 605 (same dies). Good VF, attractively toned, reverse a little off center. Very rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex M.P. Vlasto Collection, 598.

Fischer-Bossert lists 13 examples from this die pairing, and 32 coins overall for his group 76, from 3 die pairings (1 obverse and 3 reverse).