Coin: 5437

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Issue
3061

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    Notes
    F-B O: 10, R: 18. Reverse legend invisible.
    Object Type
    coin
    Denomination
    Didrachm
    Metal
    Silver
    Region
    Italy
    State
    Calabria
    City
    Tarentum
    Date
    -510 to -450
    Obverse Figure Description
    Boy on a dolphin, right, right hand extended and opened upward, left hand holds an octopus
    Obverse Legend
    TARAS [three-bar sigma]
    Reverse Figure Description
    Hippocamp, right
    Reverse Legend
    TARAS [retrograde; three-bar sigma]
    Reverse Attributes
    cabled border
    Reverse Symbol
    scallop shell
    Citations
    References
    Provenance
    Spink, London; 7/1960; Pounds 25

    Coin Description

    Size
    20 in mm
    Die Axis
    9
    Weight
    7.6 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 23g
    References
    F-B
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