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Nomos - Xeneas and Eu...
| Issuer | Tarentum |
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| Year | 272 BC - 240 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Nude youth on horseback advancing to right, crowning his horse with a wreath held in his right hand while controlling the reins with his left; the magistrate's name ΞΕΝ-ΕΑΣ (Xeneas) appears in the field below the horse, and the initial EΥ is placed to the right, identifying a co-magistrate. The equestrian scene is rendered in the vigorous Tarentine style characteristic of the late Nomos series. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Phalanthos, the legendary Spartan founder of Tarentum, seated astride a dolphin leaping to the left; he holds a rhyton in his right hand and grasps a trident in his left, attributes emblematic of his divine connection to Poseidon and the sea. To the right in the field stands an ear of grain on a leafed stalk, a symbol of the city's agricultural prosperity. The city ethnic ΤΑΡΑΣ is distributed in the field. The composition adheres to the canonical Tarentine reverse type established throughout the Nomos coinage. |
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