Nomos - Nikodamos, Eu... and Aga...

Struck during the most politically charged decade in Tarentum's history, this nomos belongs to the period when the city had invited Pyrrhus of Epirus to defend it against Roman encroachment — a gamble that ultimately failed when Pyrrhus withdrew in 275 BC and Rome tightened its grip on the region. The magistrates' names partially preserved in the type designation, Nikodamos and the abbreviated Eu— and Aga—, reflect Tarentum's civic minting tradition of naming the officials responsible for each issue, a practice that allows modern die studies to sequence production across what was an increasingly desperate final generation of the city's independence.