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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientnut, post: 2102915, member: 73212&quot;]My only overstrike and my oldest coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s95.photobucket.com/user/ancientnut/media/1Tarentum_zps67164f77.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s95.photobucket.com/user/ancientnut/media/1Tarentum_zps67164f77.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l155/ancientnut/1Tarentum_zps67164f77.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Tarentum, Calabria, AR stater, c 480-470 BC, OBV: TARAΣ (retrograde); Nude Phalanthos riding dolphin right; scallop shell below; cable border around / REV: Wheel with four spokes and central hub within incuse circle. One of the auction catalogs included the following observation:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Careful examination of this coin reveals traces of an undertype, suggesting that it was struck over a Corinthian stater dated circa 500 BC. Around the scallop shell can be seen the outline of the distinctive curved wing and back of a Corinthian Pegasos (for comparison, see SNG Dewing 1713ff). The appearance of this undertype is a vivid reminder of the important trade that existed between Magna Graecia and mainland Greece for which Corinth and her colonies along the Adriatic were essential middlemen. Its strategic harbor encouraged Tarentum to seek to dominate this trade across the Adriatic and Ionian seas.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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