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Auction: 1012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1225

Calabria, Tarentum (c.340-332 BC), AR Stater, 7.87g, naked boy crowning head of horse standing right with its left foreleg raised for a boy, kneeling right, to remove stone from hoof, on right, rev. tapa, naked male (Phalanthos?) seated sideways on dolphin left, holding trident and shield, and stylised waves below (Fischer-Bossert 702; Vlasto 513; Historia Numorum 888), insignificant metal flaws in field, toned, about extremely fine Estimate £ 1,000-1,300 provenance Leu 61, 17 May 1995, lot 26 Leu 50, 1990, lot 26 Leu 2, 1972, lot 19 Schulman, Amsterdam, 248, 1968, lot 5

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