Tarentum struck this nomos during the city's final decades of genuine independence, a period bookended by the withdrawal of Pyrrhus in 275 BC and the city's capitulation to Rome in 272 BC — after which it continued minting under increasingly constrained autonomy until the mid-third century. The magistrate name Philiskos appears on a narrow cluster of dies within the Vlasto sequence, suggesting a brief tenure rather than a prolific series.
Vlasto 888–889 represent adjacent die pairings, and collectors working the series closely often encounter the same reverse die across both numbers.
Tarentum struck this nomos during the city's final decades of genuine independence, a period bookended by the withdrawal of Pyrrhus in 275 BC and the city's capitulation to Rome in 272 BC — after which it continued minting under increasingly constrained autonomy until the mid-third century. The magistrate name Philiskos appears on a narrow cluster of dies within the Vlasto sequence, suggesting a brief tenure rather than a prolific series.
Vlasto 888–889 represent adjacent die pairings, and collectors working the series closely often encounter the same reverse die across both numbers.