⅙ Stater

Features

Issuer	Tarentum (Calabria)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	320 BC - 315 BC
Value	⅙ Gold Stater (10⁄3)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Gold
Weight	1.41 g
Diameter	9 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 526955
References	HN Italy# 951 Neville Keith Rutter, Andrew Burnett; 2001. Historia numorum: Italy. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , Vlasto# 27 Oscar E. Ravel; 1947. Descriptive Catalogue of The Collection of Tarentine Coins formed by M. P. Vlasto. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom. , SNG France# 1792-1793 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum France (8 volumes). , de Luynes# 251 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes). , SNG Ashmolean# 281 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes). , SNG ANS 1# 1034 Joan E. Fischer; 1969. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 1. Etruria-Calabria. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , SNG Copenhagen# 834 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , SNG Lloyd# 186 Peter Bagwell Purefoy, Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume II - The Lloyd Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (4 volumes). , Jameson# 161 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , BostonMFA# 73 Agnes Baldwin Brett; 1955. Catalogue of Greek Coins. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Obverse

Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΤΑΡΑ
ΣΑ

Reverse

Herakles, raising club overhead in right hand, preparing to strike the Nemean lion as it attacks him from the right; bow and quiver to left.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ͰΗ

Mint

Taras, Calabria, modern-day Taranto, Italy

Comments

Fischer-Bossert G14; Warren 36; Hunterian 20; McClean 599; BMC 25–26; Weber 550.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (320 BC - 315 BC)							$ 2800

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Examples of the type

SNG France 1792; Fischer-Bossert G 14h; Vlasto 27

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SNG France 1793; Fischer-Bossert G 14r; de Luynes 251

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SNG Ashmolean 281

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BMC Greek (Italy) p. 164, 25

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 140 Lot 6	7 Nov 2023	VF	USD 2844.11 (CHF 2250.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	CNG Triton XX Lot 12	10 Jan 2017	VF	USD 5500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Auction 100 Lot 3	7 Oct 2015	VF	USD 2750.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Peus 380 (3 November 2004), lot 76
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Auction 93 Lot 15	22 May 2013	VF	USD 2500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Sternberg XXIII (29 October 2000), lot 69
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Stacks Bowers August 2021 ANA Auction Lot 42025	16 Aug 2021	F (NGC Choice Fine 4/5 - 3/5)	Unsold
© Stacks Bowers
	CNG Triton VII Lot 14	12 Jan 2004	F	USD 900.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.