Nomos

Tarentum's silver nomoi of this period were struck at a standard derived from the Corinthian stater tradition, reflecting the city's Spartan colonial roots filtered through Magna Graecian commercial realities. The city was then at the height of its early power, not yet threatened by the Messapian pressures that would intensify through the following century. Vlasto 93 places this emission among the earliest recognizable die groupings in his foundational 1947 study, which remains the primary reference for Tarentine coinage despite its age.