I'm not a collector of larger Greek silver coins but I do have one stater of Tarentum in Calabria, southern Italy. I acquired it because of the punning image of the lion mark on one side and the magistrate's name, Leon, on the other.
The only reference I have is Evans' 1888 Numismatic Chronicle paper on the Horsemen of Tarentum that places the coin in his eighth series, c.272-235 BC (series VIII, type B, coin 3). The period is one of an alliance with Rome that apparently resulted in a large volume of coins being produced. As Evans comments,
“The abundance of these late types is a speaking proof that the enforced alliance with Rome had not, at least after the first excesses of the occupation, sensibly impaired the material prosperity of the Tarentines. Their condition was in all probability more flourishing than it had been in the time of what Livy describes as their "miserable servitude" under Pyrrhus' governor. The types and symbols of some of the didrachms. of this Period supply us, indeed, with a remarkable piece of evidence tending to prove that the Tarentine commerce was still in a position to dominate some of the South Italian markets.”
