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Triton XVII Sessions 1 & 2  7 January 2014
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Lot 6

Estimate: 2000 USD
Price realized: 2250 USD
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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 280 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 7.91 g, 8h). Nude warrior, wearing crested helmet and shield on left arm, holding rein in right hand, on horse advancing left; retrograde EY to left, NIKO/ΔAM/OΣ in three lines below / Phalanthos, holding grape bunch by branch in extended right hand and cradling distaff in left arm, riding dolphin left; TAPAΣ to left; to right, cock standing left; AΓA below. Vlasto 707 (this coin); HN Italy 970; SNG ANS –; SNG Lloyd –; Jameson 168 (same dies). EF, attractively toned, minor flat strike on head of warrior. Well centered on a broad flan.


Ex Nomos 6 (8 May 2012), lot 4; Leu 81 (16 May 2001 ['Outstanding Collection']), lot 13; M. P. Vlasto Collection, 707; J. J. Charvet Collection (Rollin & Feuardent, 30 April 1903), lot 25.
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