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Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 88. Estimate $500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009. 
Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Punic occupation. Circa 212-209 BC. AR Half Shekel (3.50 g, 12h). Nude youth, holding filleted palm frond, on horseback right; ΣΩKAN-NAΣ below / Phalanthos, holding kantharos and trident, on dolphin left; to right, eagle standing left with open wings. Vlasto 985; HN Italy 1082; SNG Ashmolean 1272 (same obv. die). EF, lustrous.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Dr. Stephen P. Mulligan Collection (Noble 64A, 12 July 2000), lot 2461; Ponterio 102 (29 July 1999), lot 77.