MK-WUE | Kalabrien: Tarent ca. 280-272 v. Chr.

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Kalabrien: Tarent ca. 280-272 v. Chr.
	Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität vault
Inventory no	Ka 1057 = H 6424
Obverse	API/ΣTI/Π [in winzigen Lettern zwischen Vorder- und Hinterläufen]. Nackter Reiter n. r. reitend, in der linken Hand Schild und zwei Speere, in der rechten Hand gezückten Speer haltend; Beizeichen im linken Feld ΓY.
Reverse	TAPAΣ. Delphinreiter n. r., Pfeil und Bogen haltend; Beizeichen unten unten ΔI und Elephant.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 280-272 v. Chr.
Denomination	Stater Stater Literally the resp. one unit. Hence designating the main unit within a certain currency of a Greek city or realm. The silver tetradrachm of Athens or the tridrachm of Corinth hence are also the stater within each denominational system. The main meaning though, especially in modern scholarship, is that of a denomination in gold of about 8.6 grams in the Attic standard.
	Silver ; 6,36 g; 21 mm; 9 h
Production	struck
Mint	Taranto
Region	Calabria
Country	Italy
Publications	N.K. Rutter, Historia Numorum. Italy (London 2001), Nr. 999; O.E. Ravel, Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Tarentine Coins Formed by M.P. Vlasto (London 1947), Nr. 710; A.J. Evans, The 'Horsemen' of Tarentum (London 1889), Gruppe VII Typ A, Nr. 1; zur Benennung des Delphinreiters: W. Fischer-Bossert, Chronologie der Didrachmen von Tarent, AMGS 14 (Berlin 1999), S. 410-423.
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Hellenism
Vendor (to prev. Owner)	Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser (Munich)
previous Owner	Herbert Wellhöfer 1991 - 2016
Object number	ID209
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