TARENTUM SILVER DIDRACHM – OVERSTRIKE ON A CORINTHIAN TYPE STATER – VF GREEK CALABRIA COIN (Inv. 18123)

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18123. CALABRIA. TARENTUM. Ca. 380–355 BC.
Silver Didrachm (Nomos), 7.90 g, 21 mm.
Obv. Rider on galloping horse right, Δ below horse. Rev. TAPAΣ, dolphin rider left, holding cantharus.
Fischer–Bossert, Chronologie, Group 40, 614 (V240/R470); Vlasto 470; HN Italy 880.
VF, overstruck on a Corinthian–type stater where the Athena head faces left (traces of helmet are very visible, the helmet’s guard and hair compressed below PAΣ in TAPAΣ). MacDonald, Overstruck Greek Coins, 4–14 are several such instances and the one specimen listed by Fischer–Bossert (his 614b) as using a Dyrrhachion undertype is probably also a Corinthian stater.