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Nomos
| Issuer | Tarentum |
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| Year | 272 BC - 240 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Nude male youth on horseback, the horse walking to right; the rider extends his right hand to crown the horse's head with a wreath. The magistrate's abbreviation AN appears in the upper field, while the divided ethnic legend NIKOK / ΡATHΣ is inscribed below the horse, referencing the magistrate Nikokrates. The composition is rendered in the accomplished Tarentine die-cutting tradition of the late period. |
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| Obverse lettering | AN NIKOK ΡATHΣ |
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Tarentum's nomos coinage of this period reflects the city's desperate final decades of independence. After the Pyrrhic War failed to dislodge Roman power, Tarentum formally submitted to Rome in 272 BC — the very year this series begins. The city retained nominal autonomy but was stripped of its fleet and garrisoned by Roman troops, a humiliation that colored every civic institution, including the mint.
Vlasto 863 is among the later issues in his die study, produced as output declined sharply and fabric quality became inconsistent. The HN Italy gap for this piece suggests it fell between Rutter's organizational criteria rather than indicating rarity in any absolute sense.