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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7957238, member: 110350&quot;]A beautiful coin, [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER]. (I&#039;ve never seen this thread before, because it was last active before I joined this forum.) My one Tarentum dolphin-rider was also relatively inexpensive because of its imperfections (especially on the horse side), and, although I don&#039;t have access to Vlasto, is only 7 catalog numbers away from yours and has a very similar design on both sides! My most important prerequisite in buying one of these was that both the dolphin and its rider be completely on the flan -- something I discovered is not necessarily so easy to find -- so I&#039;m quite happy with mine, as I hope you are with yours. (I find the dolphin&#039;s annoyed expression to be quite appealing on mine.)&nbsp; I&#039;ve been tempted by finer examples myself, with different designs on the obverse (such as the types with a horseman thrusting a spear downwards), but I&#039;ve always decided that I&#039;d rather spend the money on something completely different from what I already have.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1379514[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Tarentum, Calabria. AR Nomos (didrachm), ca. 302-280 BCE. Magistrates Sa.., Arethon and Cas-. Obv. Youth on horseback right, crowning horse with wreath; magistrates&#039; names: ΣA to left and AΡE/ΘΩN in two lines below/ Rev. TAΡAΣ, Phalanthos astride dolphin left, holding tripod, CAΣ below. Vlasto 666 [Ravel, O.E., <i>Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Tarentine Coins formed by M.P. Vlasto</i> (London, 1947, reprinted)]; HN Italy 957 [Rutter, N.K., ed., <i>Historia Numorum Italy</i> (London, 2001)]; SNG ANS 1046 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, USA, The Collection of the American Numismatic Society,</i> <i>Part 1: Etruria - Calabria</i> (New York 1969)]. 23 mm., 7.86 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS: Are those bankers&#039; marks on my dolphin-rider&#039;s left thigh, or simply signs of corrosion?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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