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Nomos
| Issuer | Tarentum |
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| Year | 281 BC - 270 BC |
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| Value | Nomos (2) |
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| Obverse description | Nude male rider mounted on a prancing horse advancing to right, carrying a round shield, two lances, and a spear; the magistrate's name ΦΙΛΩΤΑΣ appears in the lower field beneath the horse, serving as an ethnic control mark. The equestrian composition is rendered in the vigorous, dynamic style characteristic of Tarentine coinage of the early third century BC. |
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| Reverse description | The city's eponymous founder Phalanthos, nude, seated astride a dolphin leaping to left, holding a bunch of grapes in one hand and a distaff in the other; the ethnic legend TAΡAΣ appears in the lower field, with the magistrate's control letters EY in the upper left field and AΓA below, denoting secondary magistrate or mint officials. The reverse type follows the canonical Tarentine iconographic tradition linking the city's foundation myth to its maritime identity. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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