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Hemilitron
| Issuer | Tarentum |
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| Year | 470 BC - 450 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Head of a nymph or female deity in profile facing right, rendered in the early Classical style characteristic of Tarentine coinage of the period. The hair is elaborately arranged with flowing locks falling behind the neck and a strand curling forward over the cheek. The modelling of the facial features is delicate, with a refined profile typical of South Italian Greek die-cutters of the mid-fifth century BC. The field is plain, with no legend or inscription. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised fan-shaped murex shell or seashell motif depicted in high relief at the centre of the field, its radiating ribs spreading upward from a pointed base in a symmetrical composition. The shell is rendered with fine incised detail emphasising the natural fluting of the specimen, consistent with the Tarentine artistic tradition of depicting marine subjects on fractional silver coinage. The surrounding field is plain and unlettered. No exergue line or subsidiary devices are present. |
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| Mintage | ND (470 BC - 450 BC) |
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