Coin: 5362

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Details

Notes

F-B O: 83; R: 119

Object Type

coin

Denomination

Didrachm

Metal

Silver

Region

Italy

State

Calabria

City

Tarentum

Date

-450 to -440

Obverse Figure Description

Boy on a dolphin, right, nude, arms forward

Obverse Legend

TARAS [retrograde, three-bar sigma]

Obverse Symbol

scallop shell

Reverse Figure Description

Reverse Legend

TARAS [r-like rho, three-bar sigma]

Series

oekist

Citations

References

Provenance

de Nicola, Rome; 3/1960; Monete e Medaglie #150, lire 15,000

Size: 22 in mm
Die Axis: 4
Weight: 7.9 in grams
Accession: Accession number: 421, 1966-01-01, Gift of: Baldwin Maull
Citations: F-B, Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, Chronologie der Didrachmenprägung von Tarent, 1999 170b
References: F-B
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