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Diobol
| Issuer | Tarentum |
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| Year | 280 BC - 228 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena in right profile, wearing a Corinthian helmet adorned with a coiled serpent on the bowl and fitted with a pronounced neckguard. The facial features are rendered in the refined Hellenistic style characteristic of Tarentine coinage of this period, with the helmet tilted slightly forward over the brow. The field is plain, with no legend or exergual inscription. |
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| Reverse description | Herakles depicted standing three-quarters facing, his muscular figure rendered in the vigorous style of late Tarentine silver coinage. In his raised right hand he grasps a club, while with his left hand he seizes the bridle of a rearing horse to the right, referencing the Eighth Labour — the capture of the Mares of Diomedes. A monogram of ΑΡ appears in the upper left field, and a monogram of ΜΙ (or ΜΥ) in the right field, serving as magistrate or control marks. The composition is energetic and dynamic, filling the small flan with considerable artistic ambition. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΡ, ΜΙ |
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