bgr_773249 - CALABRIA - TARAS Nomos, statère ou didrachme
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Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 310 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tarente
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 7,84 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan court, idéalement centré. Très beau cavalier au droit. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
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 : X/ ARI.
Reverse
Reverse description : Taras nu, chevauchant un dauphin à gauche, tenant un canthare de la main droite et une rame de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : KL/ TARAS.
Commentary
Les deux lettres du revers, kappa et lambda, pourraient constituer les initiales de Kléomymos.
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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