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HM31793

Calabria, Tarentum, silver Didrachm, Ch XF 4/5 5/5

Calabria, Tarentum, silver Nomos or Didrachm, c.302-281 BC, youth on horse prancing to right, holding rein and crowning horse with wreath, ΣA to left, APE/ΘΩN in two lines below, rev. Taras or Phalanthos on dolphin left, holding tripod, CAΣ below, 7.91g, 9h (Vlasto 666-7; HN Italy 957). NGC Ch XF 4/5 5/5.

NGC Certification 4282772-004

Tarentum was founded by colonists from Sparta in the 8th century BC. In this series the dolphin-rider is variously described as Taras, after whom the city was named, the son of the god Poseidon who was shipwrecked and saved by a dolphin which his father had sent to rescue him; or Phalanthos, the leader of the Spartan colonists, who was also shipwrecked and rescued by a dolphin; or an unnamed oikist, the term given to the lead-colonist who had authority to choose which site to colonize and direct the colony's activities in its early stages. The horse-riders are depicted at different ages, some with armour suggesting they are warriors, and others with laurel wreaths suggesting they are the winners at important celebratory games.

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