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Nomos - Sim... and Her...
| Issuer | Tarentum |
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| Year | 330 BC - 325 BC |
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| Weight | 7.89 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | ΣΙΜ |
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Tarentum's silver nomoi from this period were struck at a moment when the city had turned to Spartan military intervention — specifically the campaigns of Archidamus III, who arrived in southern Italy around 338 BC to assist against the Messapians and Lucanians. The magistrate names abbreviated on this issue, conventionally read as Sim- and Her-, appear across a tightly clustered die sequence catalogued by Vlasto, suggesting a concentrated production episode rather than a rolling magistracy.
Archidamus died fighting near Manduria in 338 BC, an inglorious end that shocked the Greek world.