bgr_766770 - CALABRIA - TARAS Nomos, statère ou didrachme
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Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 332-302 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tarente, Calabre
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 7,87 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Très joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse description : Cavalier galopant à droite, armé de deux javelines et d'un bouclier de la main gauche, brandissant une javeline de la main droite.
Obverse legend : DAI
Reverse
Reverse description : Taras nu, chevauchant un dauphin à gauche, tenant un trident transversal de la main droite et un petit bouclier rond orné d’un hippocampe ; à l’exergue, un murex tourné à droite.
Reverse legend : FI/ TARAS
Reverse translation : (Tarente).
Historical background
CALABRIA - TARAS
(302-281 BC)
Kleonymos
After the death of Alexander of Epirus (330 BC), the Tarentines continued to confront the tribes of Lucania and Bruttium, to which were added the Romans. This time they turned to Kleonymos of Sparta to deliver them from this double danger. Taranto and Rome had signed a naval treaty in 303 BC on the neutrality of the Tarentines in exchange for the respect of the territorial integrity of their city by the Roman armies.
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