The identification of the female head on Tarentum's early coinage as Satyria rests on mythology and iconographic logic. Satyria was the local nymph of the Taranto region, and the mother of Taras by the sea god Poseidon. She was closely tied to the landscape of Magna Graecia where she embodied the fertile and wild aspects of the local environment. A harbor near Taranto is still called Torre Saturo, derived from Satyrion. The identification is tentative but numismatically compelling. The reverse simultaneously depicts Taras riding his dolphin, meaning obverse and reverse together form a coherent mythological program: mother on one side, son on the other, united by the city's founding legend. The pairing would have resonated powerfully with the city's inhabitants as a declaration of divine origins.