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Calabria, Tarentum (c.302-280 B.C.), Silver Stater, 7.95g, . Nike standing to left, turning the upper portion of her body to right and seizing the forelock of a horse prancing to left, the horseman wears a helmet and holds a small shield and two javelins. Rev. TAPAΣ, Taras seated astride dolphin to left, rising to his knees, extending his right arm and holding in his left hand a small shield inscribed E, IOP in the left field, waves below (Vlasto 680; SNG ANS 1056; SNG Lockett 200; HN Italy 963). Lightly toned, sharply struck, excellent style, good extremely fine, a very good example. $ 2,000 Ex Collection of Ancient Greek Gold and Silver Coins formed by a Foreign Amateur, Glendining & Co., London, 13 December 1963, lot 26
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Calabria, Tarentum (c.302-280 B.C.), Silver Stater, 7.97g, . Naked horseman cantering to left, holding behind him a small shield, [ΦI]ΛΩN below. Rev. TAPAΣ, Taras seated astride dolphin to left, holding in his outstretched right hand a small Nike who extends a wreath towards his head, waves below (Vlasto 685; SNG Lockett 201; SNG ANS 1060; HN Italy 964). Lightly toned, extremely fine. $ 850 Ex Moreira Collection, Part 2, Superior Galleries, 10-11 December 1988, lot 1700
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Calabria, Tarentum (c.280 B.C.), Gold Half Stater, 4.28g, . Head of young Herakles facing to right, wearing a lion’s skin headdress. Rev. TAPANTINΩN , Taras driving a galloping biga to right, holding a trident and the reins, AP monogram above horses, NK monogram beneath the forehorse (Fischer-Bossert G29g (V25/R29) (this coin); Vlasto 30-31; SNG Lloyd 201 var.; Vlasto, ‘The Late Mr. E.P. Warren’s Hoard of Tarentine Horsemen and Other Contributions to Tarentine Numismatics’, NC 1930, pl. XI, 17; SNG ANS 1037; HN Italy 985). Attractive style, good very fine and extremely rare. $ 5,000 This coin published in ‘Chronologie der Didrachmenprägung von Tarent’, W. Fischer-Bossert (1999), p. 361, G29g. Ex Collection of Ancient Greek Gold and Silver Coins formed by a Foreign Amateur, Glendining & Co., London, 13 December 1963, lot 23