TARENTUM SILVER DIDRACHM – EX THEODOR PROWE COLLECTION AND SOLD BY BRUDER EGGER IN 1914 – XF NGC GRADED GREEK CALABRIA COIN (INV. 20058)

$2,500.00

20058. CALABRIA. TARENTUM. Ca. 280–240 BC.
Silver Didrachm (Nomos), 6.53 g, 20 mm. Issue of magistrate Sodamos.
Obv. Youthful rider right, crowning his horse, ΣΩΔAMOΣ [traces of letters] below. Rev. TAPAΣ, dolphin rider left, preparing to throw trident.
HGC 1, 886 corr. (horseman crowning horse not noted); Vlasto 785 (this obverse die); HN Italy 1012.
Ex Münzen & Medaillen Deutschland GmbH 51,12/4/2024, lot 21, giving provenance as being from Klenau von Klenova Auktion 34, 7/19/1968, lot 103 (there listed but without illustration) = ex Theodor Prowe Collection, Moscow, Brüder Egger XLVI, 5/11/1914, lot 28.
NGC graded XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, “scratches,” Prowe provenance cited on label, colorful iridescent highlights.