Calabria, Tarentum AR nomos c. 280-272 BC Phalanthus riding dolphin/youth on horseback, pedigree to 1914 EF

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Calabria, Tarentum, AR nomos c. 280-272 BC. Phalanthus riding dolphin left, holding acrostolium and distaff/Youth on horseback right crowning himself with laurel wreath. Magistrates ZΩ-, ZAΛO-, and ANΘ-. 22 mm, 6.46 g.

Extremely fine, the obverse struck off-centre, old cabinet tone, an excellent provenance.

Vlasto 803-7

ex-Vinchon & Ciani auction (Paris), 6 February 1956, lot 59; ex-E.Y. Hindamian (1877-1958) collection; ex-Sotheby's (London), 19 January 1914, lot 30 pt. (to Hindamian); ex-Cumberland Clark (1862-1941) collection, presumably bought in London circa 1911-3.

E.Y. Hindamian was a Paris-based dealer and collector of antiquities of Armenian descent; Cumberland Clark was a literary scholar of private means with eclectic collecting tastes, who is mostly remembered for his work on Shakespeare and Dickens, as well as his terrible comic poetry which is sometimes considered the worst ever to have been written in the English language. He collected coins only for a few years before selling the collection to concentrate on other areas, especially cuneiform tablets. He died in a bombing raid on his hometown, Bournemouth during WWII.

 

 

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