Watch List notes:

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 500-490 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.97 g, 2h). Taras, nude, riding dolphin right, holding cuttlefish, left hand extended / Hippocamp right; cockle shell below. Fischer-Bossert Group 2, 32g (V13/R25 – this coin); Vlasto 129 (same dies); HN Italy 827; Dewing 123 (same dies); McClean 534 (same dies). Attractive iridescent tone. VF.


From the Judy Day Frink Collection. Ex "Numismatic Beastiary" Collection (Owl FPL, 1981), no. 7; Spink Numismatic Circular LXXXVI.3 (March 1978), no. 3156.