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Auction 88  8 October 2015
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Lot 354

Estimate: 4000 CHF
Price realized: 3750 CHF
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Auction 88 Part I
Greek Coins
Calabria, Tarentum

Nomos circa 425-415, AR 8.20 g. Naked Phalantus seated on dolphin l., holding shield in l. hand and extending r. arm; beneath, pecten. Rev. Taras, naked to waist, seated l. on stool and holding sceptre in r. hand; in lower r. field, spindle. Vlasto 237-238 (these dies). SNG ANS 858 (these dies). Fischer-Bossert 271l (this coin). Historia Numorum Italy 844.
Very rare and in exceptional condition for the issue, possibly the finest specimen
known. Wonderful old cabinet tone, obverse as usual from a worn die and
slightly off-centre, otherwise about extremely fine

Ex Triton V, 2002, 1039. From the A.D.M. collection.



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