Tarentum Nomos - Xenokrates, -240 – -228

Nomos from Tarentum. Issued from -240 to -228. Struck in Silver. Measures 20 mm and weighs 6.54 g.

Obverse

Armored cavalryman, riding horse moving to left, raising his right hand in salute and turning his bearded and laureate head to face the viewer. In upper field to right, monogram and pileus

Reverse

Phalanthos, nude, riding dolphin to left, his body turned slightly back to right, holding a trident over his right shoulder in his right hand and holding his drapery in his upraised left. To right, monogram of ΣΩ and below, waves and cuttlefish