CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 380-325 BC. AR Diobol (12.5mm, 1.08 g, 12h). Helmeted head of Athena right, helmet decorated with hippocamp / Herakles standing, strangling the Nemean lion; club to left; K between legs. Vlasto 1254–9; HN Italy 914; SNG Lockett 291 (this coin). Old cabinet tone, minor marks. Good VF.
Ex Mark Gibbons Collection; ‘Collection sans Pareille’ (Nomos 29, 5 November 2023), lot 563, purchased from Spink, January 1968; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Greek Part I, Glendining, 25 October 1955), lot 233 (part of).
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