Nomos - Zopyrion

By the 240s BC, Tarentum was a city diminished. The Pyrrhic adventure had failed, Rome had taken the city in 272 BC, and the once-dominant Greek colony in southern Italy was producing coinage under conditions of political subordination rather than the civic confidence that had defined its earlier nomoi. The magistrate name Zopyrion appears on a small cluster of issues from this compressed terminal phase of Tarentine silver production, catalogued by Vlasto at 940–941.

These late nomoi are notably lighter than the classical Tarentine standard, reflecting either deliberate debasement of weight norms or the economic realities of a treasury no longer flush with trade revenue from the Adriatic.