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Nomos
| Issuer | Tarentum |
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| Year | 280 BC - 272 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | ΝΚ ΦΙΛΟΚΡΑ |
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These years mark Tarentum's last-ditch alliance with Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose Italian campaign was funded in part by the city's own treasury. The nomos issues of this period bear the direct financial weight of that arrangement — Tarentum effectively bankrolled a mercenary king whose victories at Heraclea and Asculum proved strategically hollow. When Pyrrhus withdrew in 275 BC, the city was exposed and increasingly under Roman pressure, surrendering in 272 BC, the terminal date of this type.
Vlasto's tight sequence of 826–828 places this among the later strikings of the alliance period.