Nomos

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.