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Silver Stater of Taras: Warrior on Horseback and Dolphin Rider, obverseOBV
Silver Stater of Taras: Warrior on Horseback and Dolphin Rider, reverseREV
Greek
TarasSilver stater334-302 BCE

Silver Stater of Taras: Warrior on Horseback and Dolphin Rider

An in-depth numismatic analysis of the fourth-century BCE silver stater (didrachm or nomos) minted by the Spartan colony of Taras in Magna Graecia, depicting an armed citizen cavalryman on the obverse and the civic eponymous hero astride a dolphin on the reverse.