obv. Naked youth on horse prancing right, holding torch in right hand, ⊢HPA (KΛHI) below rev. Phalanthos seated on dolphin right, aiming a dart in right hand, holding two lances in left hand, a chlamys flows from his left arm, PX-monogram in field to left, kantharos and Ξ below, TAPAΣ to right
Under the terms of their earlier settlement, no Roman ship was permitted to sail past the Lacinian Cape of Bruttium, but in 302 BC, a squadron under the praetor Lucius Cornelius, passed directly before the harbor of Taras on his way to assist Thourioi. Incested by the disregard for the treaty, the Tarantines sank most of the ships and expelled the Roman garrison from Thourioi. Outraged at these developments, the Romans declared war on Taras. The Tarantines invited the Epirote king, Pyrrhos, and his mercenary army to lead them and their allies against the Romans. The subsequent conflict became known as the Pyrrhic War (280-275). At the beginning of this war the Achaian weight standard (circa 7,90gr. for the nomos of 3 drachmas) was replaced by the new Tarantine weight standard (circa 6,60gr. for the stater of 2 drachmas). After some victories in 280 and 279 BC, in the end Pyrrhos was defeated in 275 BC by the Romans in the Battle of Beveventum. Taras surrendered to the consul Lucius Papirius Cursor and became a Roman allied city (civitas foederata). Taras, as a “civitas foederata” continued the activity of her mint on the reduced weight standard.
BMC- (cf. 126) | SNG.Copenhagen- | SNG.München- | SNG.Tübingen- | Jameson 193 | McClean- | Vlasto 817 | Evans Pl.VIII, no.13 (type L) | Historia Numorum, Italy - Côte 425 (de la plus grande rareté) | Weber collection 637 | HGC- | SNG.Paris- RR Wonderful coin of great elegance and style. Masterpiece. Very rare. xf à xf+
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