Watch List notes:

CALABRIA. Tarentum. Circa 490-480 BC. Didrachm or Nomos (Silver, 18 mm, 8.12 g, 3 h). ΤΑΡΑΣ Youthful oikist, nude and with long hair, riding dolphin to right, holding octopus in his right hand and extending his left toward cable border. Rev. ΤΑΡΑΣ Hippocamp to right; below, cockle shell. Fischer-Bossert 45 (V19/R36). HN Italy 827. SNG ANS 837 (same dies). Some scrapes and deposits, otherwise, about very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.