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Nomos
| Issuer | Tarentum |
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| Year | 240 BC - 228 BC |
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| Value | Nomos (2) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Tarentum Mint |
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By the late 240s BC, Tarentum was a spent force. The city had exhausted itself funding Pyrrhus of Epirus's Italian campaigns — a costly gamble that ended in 275 BC at Beneventum — and then submitted to Rome in 272 BC under a treaty that stripped it of its fleet and garrison rights. These later nomoi were struck by a city navigating the humiliating realities of Roman clientage, its silver coinage continuing largely by commercial inertia rather than political ambition.
Vlasto 963 falls within a well-documented magistrate sequence, though the specific officials responsible for this emission remain incompletely identified in the literature.