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Nomos
| Issuer | Tarentum |
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| Year | 290 BC - 281 BC |
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| Value | Nomos (2) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted warrior on horseback prancing to left, depicted in full military panoply; the rider holds in his left hand a large round shield ornamented with a dolphin device and in his right hand two spears couched forward. The magistrate's abbreviation ΑIΛ appears above and to the right of the rider, while ΑΠΗ is inscribed in the lower field, identifying the issuing magistrates responsible for the coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Tarentum's nomoi of this period were struck at a moment of acute political crisis — the city was simultaneously managing fractious relationships with neighboring Italic tribes and beginning to look seriously toward Epirus for military intervention. The embassy to Pyrrhus was dispatched around 281 BC, making coins from this narrow window essentially the last issues produced under the assumption of genuine Tarentine independence.
Vlasto 648–650 represents a tightly grouped die sequence, suggesting concentrated production rather than extended emission across the full decade.