CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 280-272 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 6.50 g, 11h). Reduced standard. Nude youth riding right, crowning horse with wreath held in his extended right hand, and holding rein in left; ZΩ to left, NEY/MH below / Phalanthos, holding helmet in extended right hand, legs crossed, riding dolphin left; stars flanking, [ΠΟΛΥ to upper right], TAPAΣ below. Vlasto 739-45; HN Italy 1006; Goldberg 96, lot 1498 (same dies). Deep iridescent tone, compact flan. Near EF. Wonderful style and quite attractive. From the Deer Creek Collection. Ex Matthew Curtis Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 112, 11 September 2019), lot 33; Triton III (30 November 1999), lot 48; Freeman & Sear 5 (14 May 1999), lot 177. The final winners of all Triton XXIX lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 13-14 January 2026.Triton XXIX – Session One – Lot 1-301 will be held Tuesday morning, 13 January 2026 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyers fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.
