MK-WUE | Kalabrien: Tarent um 500-490 v. Chr.

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Kalabrien: Tarent um 500-490 v. Chr.
	Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität vault
Inventory no	Ka 1061 = H 6428
Obverse	TAPAΣ [retrograd; Sigma mit drei Hasten]. Delphinreiter n. r., hält in der rechten Hand Oktopus und streckt den linken Arm nach vorne; Fleichtbandkreis.
Reverse	TAPAΣ [retrograd; Sigma mit drei Hasten]. Geflügelter Hippokamp n. r., darunter Jakobsmuschel.
Class/status	City
Date	um 500-490 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 ; 7,92 g; 23 mm; 6 h
Production	struck
Mint	Taranto
Region	Calabria
Country	Italy
Publications	W. Fischer-Bossert, Chronologie der Didrachmen von Tarent, AMGS 14 (Berlin 1999), Nr. 20, Datierung auf 500-490 v. Chr., S. 410-423 zur Benennung des Delphinreiters; N.K. Rutter, Historia Numorum. Italy (London 2001), Nr. 827, Datierung auf 500-480; O.E. Ravel, Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Tarentine Coins Formed by M.P. Vlasto (London 1947), Nr. 124.
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Vendor (to prev. Owner)	Numismatica Ars Classica AG (Zürich)
previous Owner	Herbert Wellhöfer 2014 - 2016
Object number	ID213
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