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Drachm
| Issuer | Tarentum |
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| Year | 302 BC - 280 BC |
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| Weight | 3.149 g |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, her Attic-style crested helmet prominently decorated with a figure of Skylla in relief on the bowl. The goddess's hair flows in wavy locks beneath the helmet's cheek-guards, and the fine modeling of the facial features reflects the accomplished engraving tradition of Tarentine mint workers in the early third century BC. The field is otherwise plain, with no encircling legend. |
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| Reverse description | An owl, rendered with closed wings and depicted in three-quarter frontal stance facing right, perches atop a horizontal olive-spray that extends across the lower field. To the right of the owl stands an upright club, a secondary device emblematic of Herakles and commonly employed as a magistrate's symbol on Tarentine coinage of this period. The Greek ethnic legend TAP, followed by ΙΟΡ, appears in the field to the lower right, identifying the issuing city of Taras. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΤΑΡ ΙΟΡ |
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