Lot n° 201
Estimation :
200 - 250
EUR
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Result
: 600EUR
CALABRIA - TARENTE Hegemony of Pyrrhus 332 - 302 - Lot 201
CALABRIA - TARENTE Hegemony of Pyrrhus 332 - 302
Horseman brandishing a spear and holding a shield and two spears. Below, ΣA. R/. Taras riding a dolphin left, holding a canthara and trident. Below, small dolphin and front AP in monogram.
♦ Vlasto 605-606
Silver statère (7.50 g)
Very fine.
The coinage of Taranto, a Lacedemonian city founded in 708 B.C., begins in the 7th century B.C. and shows us in many guises the eponymous hero Taras or Phalanthos, who was saved from shipwreck by a dolphin.
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