New addition to my Tarentum 'Dolphin-Rider' pod

I finally reconnected the desk-top and pulled my JAZ example up.....Anyone recognize those fingers

 

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Not sure about the fingers, but I recognize the coin from when he first showed it... nice one!

 

I love how the double strike on the obverse of the OP coin gives the horse and rider a motion blur that actually looks intentional. I would have bought that coin because of the double strike.

 

I am sorry @TIF , you have NO Riding Dolphin?
THEN:



LOL, well... neither do I... See ya in JAIL!

 

The latest addition to my dolphin-rider pod arrived earlier this week, courtesy of Frank Robinson's most recent auction. I was saving one or two slots of my allowed twelve for an earlier nomos of Tarentum. In place of the horseman, this one has a hippocamp.

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CALABRIA, Tarentum
AR Nomos. 7.86g, 19.3mm. CALABRIA, Tarentum, circa 500-490 BC. Vlasto 115. O: Phalanthos riding dolphin right, holding cuttle-fish in right hand, left hand extended; TAPAΣ (retrograde) below. R: Hippocamp left; scallop below, TAPAΣ (retrograde) above.
Ex Pegasi Numismatics XXXIV (24 May 2016), lot 18