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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2597729, member: 57495"]I mentioned in another thread that I had a recent arrival of one of these, and today I had the time to take some pictures of it. I really just wanted one with the little dolphin control symbol and this one leaped at me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. It has some light old scratches, but as long as they stay mostly in the fields, they never bother me as much as do devices that have major parts missing. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]566552[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>CALABRIA, Tarentum</b></p><p><b>Circa 325-281 BC</b></p><p>AR Nomos. 7.50g, 20.2mm. Fischer-Bossert 870c (<i>this coin</i>); Vlasto 607; SNG Copenhagen 849; SNG France 1800 (same obverse die). O: Nude rider on horse galloping to right, stabbing with spear held in his right hand and holding two other spears and shield with his left; below, ΣΑ. R: TAPAΣ, Phalanthos riding dolphin to left, holding kantharos in his right hand and trident in his left; below, little dolphin leaping left; K in left field.</p><p><i>Ex Schweizerischer Bankverein 29 (28 January 1992), lot 12</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2597729, member: 57495"]I mentioned in another thread that I had a recent arrival of one of these, and today I had the time to take some pictures of it. I really just wanted one with the little dolphin control symbol and this one leaped at me :). It has some light old scratches, but as long as they stay mostly in the fields, they never bother me as much as do devices that have major parts missing. [ATTACH=full]566552[/ATTACH] [B]CALABRIA, Tarentum Circa 325-281 BC[/B] AR Nomos. 7.50g, 20.2mm. Fischer-Bossert 870c ([I]this coin[/I]); Vlasto 607; SNG Copenhagen 849; SNG France 1800 (same obverse die). O: Nude rider on horse galloping to right, stabbing with spear held in his right hand and holding two other spears and shield with his left; below, ΣΑ. R: TAPAΣ, Phalanthos riding dolphin to left, holding kantharos in his right hand and trident in his left; below, little dolphin leaping left; K in left field. [I]Ex Schweizerischer Bankverein 29 (28 January 1992), lot 12[/I][/QUOTE]
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