Ex Moretti and Vlasto

CNG 87, Lot: 118. Estimate $1000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 400-390 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.87 g, 5h). Nude youth, holding shield, on horseback left / Phalanthos, holding torch, riding dolphin left; retrograde Σ below. Fischer-Bossert group 25, 337f (V153/R260) = Vlasto 312 (this coin); HN Italy 849. Good VF, toned. Well centered and struck.

Ex Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica P, 12 May 2005), lot 1028; M.P. Vlasto Collection, 312; J. Hirsch XXIX (9 November 1910), lot 27.