Watch List notes:

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 325/0-315 BC. AR Nomos (23.5mm, 7.85 g, 1h). Nude youth on horseback right, crowning horse with wreath held in his right hand, left hand on rein; ΣA to left; below, head of Silenos facing slightly right / Phalanthos riding dolphin left, holding kantharos in extended right hand, left hand resting on dolphin; TAPAΣ to right, ΦI below. Fischer-Bossert Group 64, 799f (V313/R619 – this coin); Vlasto 660–1 (same dies); HN Italy 945; SNG Copenhagen 861 (same dies). Good VF, toned, scratches and deposit in field on obverse, reverse a little off center.


From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Olga H. Knopke Collection (Glendining's, with Baldwin's, 10 December 1986), lot 20; Walter Niggeler Collection (Part I, Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, 3 December 1965), lot 36.