bgr_1108410 - CALABRIA - TARAS Nomos, statère ou didrachme
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Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 344-340 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tarente, Calabre
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 5,47 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan court, centré. Usure importante mais régulière. Trou rebouché à 12h et à 6h au revers. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse description : Cavalier passant au pas à gauche, casqué, nu, tenant les rênes de son cheval de la main droite, un bouclier sur le bras gauche, une javeline transversale au côté.
Obverse legend : D
Reverse
Reverse description : Taras nu, chevauchant un dauphin à gauche, tenant de la main droite un trident reposant sur l’épaule, le bras gauche appuyé sur le dauphin ; au-dessous, les flots.
Reverse legend : TARA-S/ K
Historical background
CALABRIA - TARAS
(344-334 BC)
Archidamos III strategos, King of Spartia
Taranto, founded around 706 BC by the Parthenopeans was the only colony in Sparta. According to mythology, Taras was the son of Poseidon and the nymph Satyra. He was saved during a shipwreck by a dolphin who deposited him near the future City. The legend TARAS designates the city. Taranto had to fight against the Lucanians and appealed in 345 BC to Archidamos, king of Sparta. The latter tried to contain the progression of the Lucanian tribes. Unfortunately, Archidamos was defeated and killed at the Battle of Mandurias in 338 BC..
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