‡ Italy, Calabria, Tarentum, gold quarter stater, c. 276-272 BC, laureate head of Apollo right, rev., eagle with spread wings standing right on thunderbolt; to left, ΣΩ; to right, monogram ΝΚ, 2.15g, die axis 3.00 (Fischer-Bossert G 47c = Vlasto 58, this piece; Vlasto (1899), p. 334, 2 var.; SNG Ashmolean 296, same dies), good very fine and rare Provenance: Charles Seltman collection; M.P. Vlasto collection 58 (“Mint state”); Hess Leu 24, 16 April 1964, lot 23; Olga H. Knoepke collection, Glendining, 10 December 1986, lot 27; European Connoisseur collection (formed before 2002).

Estimate: GBP 3000-4000