Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 3096 Session 11 (9.30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $700
ITALY, Calabria, Tarentum (Taras), (334-330 B.C.), silver stater or nomos, (7.82 grams), obv. naked horseman on prancing horse to right holding lance downwards, shield behind, below **SA*, rev. Taras astride a dolphin to left, holding a distaff, below dolphin prow of vessel to left, **TAPAS in small letters on right, (S.347, cf.Vl.586, cf.SNG ANS 985-6). Very fine/good very fine.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 59 (lot 1779). This type was struck during the Italian campaign of the Epeirote king Alexander the Molossian. Ostensibly the champion of the Tarentines, Alexander soon revealed wider ambitions, but his career was terminated by his death in battle against the Lucanians and Bruttians.
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