TARENTUM SILVER DIDRACHM – ISSUE WITH DOLPHIN RIDER HOLDING HELMET EX SALTON COLLECTION – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK CALABRIA COIN (Inv. 17461)

$1,450.00

17461. CALABRIA. TARENTUM. Ca. 281-240 BC.
Silver Didrachm (Nomos), 6.56 g, 23 mm.
Obv. Youthful rider right crowning horse, ZΩ in left field, NEY/MH in two lines below. Rev. TAPAΣ, dolphin rider left, holding helmet, two stars in fields, ΠΟΛΥ in upper right field.
Vlasto 739-742; HN Italy 1006; HGC 1, 884.
Ex Salton Collection, likely acquired in the 1950s-1960s when Mr. Salton owned a numismatic firm in New York.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5.