Watch List notes:

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 276-272 BC. AV Tetrobol – Third Stater (12.5mm, 2.84 g, 8h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a coiled serpent / Male youth (Taras or Phalanthos?), nude but for chlamys draped over arm, holding reins in right hand, trident in left, driving fast biga right; star above. Fischer-Bossert G67 (V54/R67); Vlasto 19 (same dies); HN Italy 953 (c. 302 BC); SNG ANS –; SNG Lloyd –; BMC 21; Hermitage Sale II 41; Hirsch 88; Jameson 227 = Warren 47; de Luynes 255; Sartiges 26 (all from the same dies). EF, toned, light scratch in field on reverse. Rare.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Leu 86 (5 May 2003), lot 215.