CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 490-480 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 8.08 g, 12h). Phalanthos, nude, riding dolphin right, extending right hand and holding cuttlefish in left; TAP-AS to right / Hippocamp right; TAPA-S above, cockle shell below. Fischer-Bossert Group 3, 52c (V23/R40) = Côte I 25 (this coin); Vlasto 123 (same dies); HN Italy 827; SNG Ashmolean 202 (same dies); SNG Newnham Davis 12 (same dies). Attractive old cabinet tone, a hint of porosity, a few scratches. VF. Traces of undertype visible.
Ex Künker 326 (7 October 2019), lot 501; Dr. Walter Stoecklin (†1975) Collection (Nomos 14, 17 May 2017), lot 26; Claudius Côte Collection (Part I, R. Ratto, 28 January 1929), lot 25.