CoinsGreek4th century BCE

Stater of Tarentum (Calabria)

c. 320 BCE

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.

Classification

Coins

Technique

Struck

Medium

Gold

Culture

Greek

Period

Classical period, Late

Century

4th century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

weight: 8.54 g

Provenance

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.