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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8341963, member: 110350&quot;]I think it&#039;s a great acquisition, [USER=81093]@AussieCollector[/USER]. A year from now, or even less, you&#039;ll have forgotten the cost, and will just appreciate having such a beautiful coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my two examples of dolphin-rider coins from Tarentum:</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><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/tarentum-ar-nomos-jpg.1379514/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></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><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/nomos-obolos-22-lot-39-tarentum-nomos-rider-w-trident-owl-in-field-jpg-jpg.1456485/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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