Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 668. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 302-280 BC. AR Nomos (7.80 g, 9h). Dakimos, magistrate. Warrior on horseback right, thrusting spear downward with right hand, holding two spears and shield in his left hand; SI behind, DAKIM[OS] below / TARAS, Phalanthos astride dolphin left, holding dolphin in right hand, cradling cornucopiae in left arm; DA below. Vlasto 696 corr. (DA not WA); SNG France -; SNG ANS 1071 corr. (same obv. die; DA not WA); SNG Copenhagen -; HN Italy 967. EF, attractive dark iridescent tone. Well struck. ($1500)

Although the ANS catalog repeats the mistake from Vlasto (whose coin was unique at the time), the correct letters were noted by G. Procopio who examined two or three examples of this type (nos. 497-499) in his article on the Bernalda hoard ("Tesoretto monetale da Metaponto-Bernalda," AIIN 4 [1957], pp. 25-65).