Head, Barclay V.: Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887)

TARENTUM.

47

Gold.

Circ. b.c. 400-330.

Fig. 28.


TAP A? Head of goddess wearing
stephane and veil hanging down
hehind her head, which is sometimes
surrounded by dolphins.


(i) The Dioskuri. Above, sometimes
A10 £ K 0 P 01. Magistrate, £ A.
(ii) Rider crowning horse . . . .
KYAIX, £ and Shell; £A, Star.
(iii) Taras as a child holding out his
arms to his father Poseidon

\ enthroned before him.

JV Stater. Wt. 135 grs. (max.)

TAPANTlNGN Head of goddess')
with flowing hair, wearing stephane I TAP A?. Taras on dolphin, sometimes
or with hair bound with cord, often i with PH.
with magistrate’s name, 5;A. J
[B. M. Guide, Pl. XXXIII. 14.] SL Drachm. Wt. 67 grs. (max.)

TA. Head of Apollo,
and dolphin.

In front SA Herakles contending with lion, FH.
SL Diobol. Wt. 22-5 grs. (max.)

Head of young Herakles in lion’s | TAPANTlNflN Taras holding trident,
skin. I driving biga.
N Stater. Wt. 135 grs. (max.)

Gold. Circ. b.c. 330-272.

Head of young Herakles in lion’s skin 1 Same type,magistrate’s name NI K AP
(later style).
[B. kl. Guide, Pl. XXXIII. 13.] SL Stater. Wt. 135 grs. (max.)

Head of Zeus NK (in mon.).

[B. M. Guide, Pl. XXXIII.

TAPANTlNflN Eagle with open
wings on fulmen, in field two am-
phorae, magistrate, NIKAP.
12.] AT Stater. Wt. 135 grs. (max.)

Head of Herakles.

TAPANTlNflN Taras in biga, magis-
I trate, NI K AP.
SL Drachm. Wt. 67-5 grs. (max.)

Head of Apollo with flowing hair. TAPANTlNflN Eagle on fulmen,
magistrates, IA and AP (spear-head).
SL % Drachm. Wt. 33-75 (max.)

Head of Pallas in Corinthian helmet. | Taras in biga.
SL Tetrobol. Wt. 45 grs. (max.)
Head of Herakles. | TAPA£ Taras on dolphin.
SL Sicilian Litra. Wt. 13-5 grs. (max.)