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Auction XIX  26-27 Mar 2020
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Lot 224

Estimate: 1250 GBP
Price realized: 750 GBP
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Calabria, Tarentum AR Nomos. Circa 340-335 BC. Nude youth on horseback to right, holding rein and crowning horse, Φ before, nude youth below, removing stone from horse's hoof / Taras astride dolphin to left, shield on arm, holding kantharos and trident; E and waves below. Fischer-Bossert 695b (V262/R542, this coin); Vlasto 510 (same dies); HN Italy 818; SNG ANS 961 (same dies); Hirsch 93 (same dies). 7.83g, 23mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine; old cabinet tone.

This coin published in W. Fischer-Bossert, Chronologie Der Didrachmenprägung von Tarent 510-280 v.Chr. (Berlin, 1999);
Ex Matthew Curtis Collection;
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Triton IV, 5 December 2000, lot 27;
Ex Bank Leu, Auction 30, 28 April 1982, lot 4.
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