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Lot 3243 SESSION 11 (Friday at 9.30am) Greek
Estimate $600
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SOLD $850
ITALY, Calabria, Tarentum (Taras), (500-473 B.C., 490-480 B.C. F-B chronology), silver nomos or stater, (7.724 grams), obv. Taras to r., riding on dolphin's back with arm left extended, right behind holding cuttle fish or octapus, below TAP A **S*, rev. Sea horse (Hippocamp), to r., with curled wing, beneath a pecten of globular fabric, within circular border, (S.224, Vl.127 [p.17, Pl.V, these dies], HN [Rutter] 827 [p.93], Evans 2nd Group Hippocamp, F-B Group 2, No. 33f [p.52 This Coin, obv. die V14, rev. die R26], SNG ANS 838, SNG Cop.774). Nearly very fine and rare.
Ex Ponterio & Associates, Chicago Coin Fair, Auction Sale 112, April 27-28, 2001 (lot 96) and previously from the Numismatic Fine Arts Auction Sale 7 (1979) (lot 13) and later in Mail Bid Sale 12 October 1988 (lot 29).
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