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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8206475, member: 85693&quot;]Nice one, [USER=117268]@Amit Vyas[/USER] - this is a lovely series of coins for sure.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have two of these, which happened to fit my budget. One of them has a paperwork trail from a 1950s fraternity. One with a boy, one with a warrior: </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/tarentum-mar-30-2017-0-jpg.1002429/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Calabria, Tarentum</b></p><p><b>AR Nomos</b></p><p><b>Hippodanos Magistrate</b></p><p><b>(c. 280-272 B.C.)</b></p><p>Naked youth on horseback right, crowning self; ΣΩ to left, ZAΛO &amp; Ionic capital below / Phalanthos riding dolphin left, holding distaff &amp; aphlaston; TAΡAΣ below;</p><p>ANO to right. Vlasto 803–7.</p><p>(6.41 grams / 20 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/taranteum-didrachm-teke-paperwork-july-2018-4-jpg.1002428/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/taranteum-didrachm-teke-paperwork-july-2018-2-jpg.1002427/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Calabria, Tarentum</b> <b>AR Nomos</b></p><p><b>ΛYKΩN Magistrate</b></p><p><b>(c. 280-272 B.C.)</b></p><p>Helmeted, nude warrior on horse right, spearing, crowned by Nike flying left, ΣI behind, ΛYKΩN under horse / Taras astride dolphin left, holding kantharos and trident, GU in right field.</p><p>Vlasto 730; SNG ANS 1096.</p><p>(6.18 grams / 19 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Provenance: </b>Presented as gift to (Army) Chaplain Luther W. Evans for naming Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity magazine <i>The Tidewater-Blue Ridge Teke </i>in 1958 (see letter from Harry Donnelly and Sept. 1958 article in <i>The Tidewater-Blue Ridge Teke</i>, page 3)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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