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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3157671, member: 57495"]Nice coin show nabs, Jay. I have yet to join the Caesar Elephant club, but would be more than happy to with a sharp and in other ways interesting example like yours. </p><p><br /></p><p>Your Tarentum didrachm/stater with Y on the obv and Λ on the rev is Vlasto 384:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]809862[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>You're right about these often being sold not checked against the reference. That was the case for my latest one, which was misattributed despite an obvious die clash on the obverse that matched the example in Vlasto. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]809864[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CALABRIA, Tarentum</b></p><p>AR Stater. 7.64g, 21.7mm. CALABRIA, Tarentum, circa 380-340 BC. Vlasto 445 (same obv die). O: Nude helmeted warrior on horseback to left, holding reins in right hand, and shield and spear in left; Δ below horse. R: Taras seated astride dolphin to left, holding trident over shoulder; K and waves below, TAPAΣ to right.</p><p>Noted in Vlasto for this obverse die: "<i>the obv. die must have struck the rev. die without blank and thus got damaged.</i>"[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3157671, member: 57495"]Nice coin show nabs, Jay. I have yet to join the Caesar Elephant club, but would be more than happy to with a sharp and in other ways interesting example like yours. Your Tarentum didrachm/stater with Y on the obv and Λ on the rev is Vlasto 384: [ATTACH=full]809862[/ATTACH] You're right about these often being sold not checked against the reference. That was the case for my latest one, which was misattributed despite an obvious die clash on the obverse that matched the example in Vlasto. [ATTACH=full]809864[/ATTACH] [B]CALABRIA, Tarentum[/B] AR Stater. 7.64g, 21.7mm. CALABRIA, Tarentum, circa 380-340 BC. Vlasto 445 (same obv die). O: Nude helmeted warrior on horseback to left, holding reins in right hand, and shield and spear in left; Δ below horse. R: Taras seated astride dolphin to left, holding trident over shoulder; K and waves below, TAPAΣ to right. Noted in Vlasto for this obverse die: "[I]the obv. die must have struck the rev. die without blank and thus got damaged.[/I]"[/QUOTE]
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