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| Issuer | Tarentum |
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| Year | 280 BC |
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| Weight | 7.92 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | The mythological founder Taras, nude, seated astride a dolphin leaping to the left, holding a kantharos (wine cup) aloft in his right hand and grasping the dolphin with his left; a trident is depicted upright in the right field. The ethnic ΤΑΡΑΣ appears in the upper legend, with the magistrate's letters ΕΥ to the left and ΑΡ in the lower field, identifying the issuing officials. The composition is rendered in a fine Hellenistic style with elegant anatomical detail. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΤΑΡΑΣ ΕΥ ΑΡ |
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