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Stater of Tarentum (Calabria)
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Obverse: Head of Persephone right, wearing a stephane and a veil on the back of her head, earrings and a pearl necklace. To r. letter E, a small dolphin under her chins and rests of the legend in field r. downwards.
Reverse: Poseidon seated on a diphros (stool), wearing a himation around his lower body, holding a trident in his left hand, the right hand on his knee. He is leaning forward towards a small boy, his son Taras, naked, who is standing in front of him and raising his hands up to him in a gesture of supplication. Letter K under stool and around the border r. upwards.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harlan J. Berk Ltd. 197th Buy or Bid Sale lot 2; Classical Numismatic Group Inc. Triton XIX 3-4 January 6. 2016 lot 2004 From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams purchased from Harlan Berk April 2002. Ex Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13 8 October 1998) lot 89; M. P. Vlasto Collection no. 1; Robert Jameson Collection 137; G. Nervegna Collection (Sambon-Canessa 18 November 1907) lot 241.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum J.P. Engelcke Coin Purchase Fund
Title: Stater of Tarentum (Calabria)
Description:
Obverse: Head of Persephone right, wearing a stephane and a veil on the back of her head, earrings and a pearl necklace.
To r.
letter E, a small dolphin under her chins and rests of the legend in field r.
downwards.
Reverse: Poseidon seated on a diphros (stool), wearing a himation around his lower body, holding a trident in his left hand, the right hand on his knee.
He is leaning forward towards a small boy, his son Taras, naked, who is standing in front of him and raising his hands up to him in a gesture of supplication.
Letter K under stool and around the border r.
upwards.

