1.1965.125: Stater of Tarentum
Coins
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.125
- Title
- Stater of Tarentum
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 480 BCE-470 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Tarentum-Taras (Calabria)
- Period
- Classical period, Early
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/197558
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 7.64 g
- Die Axis
- 9
- Denomination
- stater
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- inscription: obverse: TARAS
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Elder, 26 June 1929 (Lawrence, 173)
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- FB 54i, Vlasto 123
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.125
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Obv.: Dolphin-rider, r., holding cuttlefish; inscription down right; Rev.: Hippocamp, r.; below, scallop shell; border of radiating lines; above, traces of ethnic
Verification Level
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