Tarentine Coins from Other Properties // Ex Maly and Moretti Collections // Fischer-Bossert Plate Coin

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 90. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $2900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Nomos (8.31 g, 11h). Phalanthos riding dolphin right, arms extended; cockle shell below / Taras as Oikistes seated left, holding distaff and staff. Fischer-Bossert group 12, 175a (V85/R124 – this coin, illustrated); Vlasto, Taras, type 14; Vlasto 184; HN Italy 844 (same dies); BMC 74 (same dies); de Luynes (same dies). Good VF, toned.

Ex R. Maly Collection (LHS 100, 23 April 2007), lot 29; Hess-Leu 31 (6 December 1966), lot 26; Athos D. Moretti Collection (Leu FPL [Tarentum], 1960), no. 26.