The Weber collection; Greek coins ... - Forvm Ancient Coins
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No.<br />
511<br />
PI. 24 T<br />
512<br />
PI. 24<br />
Wt.<br />
122.7<br />
7 95<br />
122.6<br />
7-94<br />
Metal<br />
Size.<br />
J&26<br />
^23<br />
CALABRIA<br />
DESCRIPTION -<br />
Tarentum.<br />
Incuse Staters struck for commerce with the Achaean Cities of<br />
Magna Graecia.<br />
Group A. Circ, B. C. 515-500.<br />
SAflAT (in field to 1.). Taras, naked, hair tied behind, astride on<br />
dolphin to r. ; 1. arm extended, and his r. resting on dolphin's<br />
back ; beneath, traces of cockle-shell; along border below, two<br />
pellets (indicating value, 2 drachmae) : cable border.<br />
tyL. Traces of inscription •••• AS. Same type as obv., 1., with cockle-<br />
shell very plain : border of radiating lines ; all incuse. — Stater.*<br />
Same dies as Paris specimen (Cab. des Med., n° 1215).<br />
(Gabrielli, Naples.)<br />
Cf. M. P. Vlasto, Rare or Unpublished <strong>Coins</strong> of Taras, Num. Chr., 1907, p. 281<br />
Cf. Evans, Horsemen of Tarentum, PI. I, 1.<br />
Cf. Babelon, Traite, I, p. 1382, n° 2027.<br />
Head, Hist. Num., 1911, p. 54, fig. 23.<br />
Cf. H. Dressel, Beschreibung Aer Antiken Miin^en, Berlin III. Taf XI. 165 (without<br />
the pellets).<br />
Notes. Head, Babelon, Sir Arthur Evans and M. P. Vlasto date the incuse Staters<br />
much earlier (B.C. 560-500) ; however, Arthur Sambon (Revue Ntimismatique, 1 916),<br />
the latest authority who has studied this class of <strong>coins</strong>, prefers the above dating.<br />
* Now in M. Vlasto's <strong>collection</strong>. Vlasto, after comparing this coin with the casts<br />
which he possesses of the 30 known specimens of this type has come to the con-<br />
clusion that it is from the same dies as the Berlin coin and one of his own (found<br />
at Lecce, 1906). He further states :<br />
" La piece <strong>Weber</strong> porte sous le dauphin, pres de<br />
la bordure, deux globules (marque de valeur indiquant qu'a Tarente ces monnaies<br />
valaient 2 drachmes et non pas 3). Ces globules ont ete ajout£s apres un long<br />
usage de ce coin et je ne les ai retrouv^s que sur un seul exemplaire du Cabinet des<br />
M£dailles de Paris, n° 121 5. Je possidais deja dans ma <strong>collection</strong> trois Tarentines<br />
de types divers avec de semblables additions ou retouches faites aux <strong>coins</strong> apres<br />
avoir servi"<br />
SAflAT (in field to 1.). Apollo Hyakinthios, naked, hair in queue<br />
and tied in knot behind, kneeling on 1. knee, r. foot advanced,<br />
holding in r. hand a hyacinth and in 1. a tetrachord chelys : cable<br />
ornamented border.<br />
107 —<br />
.