CALABRIA, Tarentum. Punic occupation. Circa 212-209 BC. AR Reduced Nomos – Half-Shekel (18mm, 3.86 g, 10h). Nude youth, crowning horse with laurel wreath in his right hand, left hand holding filleted palm frond over should, riding horse right; KPITO-Σ below / Phalanthos, nude, holding Nike, who crowns him, in extended right hand, and cradling trident in left arm, riding dolphin left; EK monogram to left, ZΩ monogram to right; TAPAΣ below. Vlasto 978–80; HN Italy 1080; SNG ANS 1269 (same obv. die); SNG BN 2066–7 (the latter = de Luynes 317); Dewing –. Lovely deep iridescent tone, trace deposits. EF. Well centered.

From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex Leu 91 (10 May 2004), lot 27.