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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8259430, member: 110350&quot;]Another new coin arrived today from the latest Nomos Obolos auction, and again I thought I would tack my write-up onto the end of an existing thread, which may not be current but was active as recently as last month.</p><p><br /></p><p>Earlier in this thread, at <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/calabria-tarentum-ar-nomos-c-281-272-bc-gy-sostratos-and-poly-magistrates-vlasto-716.392920/#post-8207359" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/calabria-tarentum-ar-nomos-c-281-272-bc-gy-sostratos-and-poly-magistrates-vlasto-716.392920/#post-8207359">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/calabria-tarentum-ar-nomos-c-281-272-bc-gy-sostratos-and-poly-magistrates-vlasto-716.392920/#post-8207359</a>, I posted my one Tarentum dolphin-rider nomos. For quite a while, I&#039;ve been looking for a second example to buy on which Phalanthos (and/or the obverse figure) is holding something more interesting than the tripod on my first example, such as a spear or shield or trident. With the same caveat that both the dolphin and rider had to be completely on the flan. When I saw this one, which admittedly has a very similar obverse to my first coin (a youth crowning a horse) -- and is also smaller, since it&#039;s a &quot;reduced standard&quot; type -- but, on the other hand, not only shows the dolphin-rider brandishing a trident but also has a little owl in the reverse field and is in really nice condition, I couldn&#039;t resist bidding, and was lucky enough to win the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Tarentum, Calabria. AR Nomos, ca. 272-240 BCE. Magistrates Sy… and Lykinos. Obv. Nude youth on horse advancing to left, crowning horse with wreath held in right hand, holding reins in left hand; to right, ΣΥ; below horse, ΛΥΚΙ/ΝΟΣ in two lines / Rev. Phalanthos [not “Taras”; see <a href="https://coinsweekly.com/and-this-is-where-aristotle-was-wrong/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinsweekly.com/and-this-is-where-aristotle-was-wrong/" rel="nofollow">https://coinsweekly.com/and-this-is-where-aristotle-was-wrong/</a>] astride dolphin to left, his back half-turned to viewer, brandishing trident held in right hand, chlamys draped over left arm; ΤΑ-ΡΑΣ beneath dolphin; in right field, owl standing to left, head facing.. Vlasto 836-841 [all same type] at p. 95 &amp; Pl. XXVII [Ravel, O.E., <i>Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Tarentine Coins formed by M.P. Vlasto</i> (London, 1947, reprinted 1977)]; HN Italy 1025 [Rutter, N.K., ed., <i>Historia Numorum Italy</i> (London, 2001)]. 19.5 mm., 6.47 g, 12 h. (“Reduced standard” compared to larger size of earlier coins, beginning after arrival of Pyrrhus in Italy ca. 280 BCE.) <i>Purchased at Nomos Obolos Auction 22, 6 March 2022, Lot 39.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1456485[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone has any dolphin coins from Tarentum that they haven&#039;t already posted in this thread, I&#039;d love to see them![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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