Watch List notes:

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 490-480 BC. AR Nomos (18mm, 8.18 g, 9h). Phalanthos riding dolphin right, holding cuttlefish in right hand, left hand extended; TAP-AS above / Hippocamp right; TAPAS above, cockle shell below. Fischer-Bossert Group 3, 52a (V23/R40) = Vlasto 123 (this coin); HN Italy 827; SNG Ashmolean 202 (same dies); Dewing 125 (same dies). Near EF, old collection toning, some scratches under tone. Rare this nice.


From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Leu 36 (7 May 1985), lot 16; Michel Pandely Vlasto Collection.