Nomos

Features

Issuer Herakleia (Lucania)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 350 BC - 340 BC
Value Nomos (3)
Currency As
Composition Silver
Weight 7.54 g
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
181824
References Kraay&Hirm# 257,
Colin Mackennal Kraay, Max Hirmer; 1966. Greek Coins. Thames & Hudson, London, United Kingdom.
HN XXXIII# 1376
Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder); 77. Naturalis historia / Liber XXXIII. Self-published, Roman Empire.

Obverse

Head of Athena to left, wearing Attic helmet adorned with a figure of Skylla raising her right hand in the gesture of aposkopein and below neck, Α

Script: Greek

Lettering: A

Reverse

Herakles, nude, standing right and strangling the struggling Nemean lion with both hands. To left, club and bow and above to the left, Α

Script: Greek

Lettering:
|-ΗΡΑΚΛΗΙΩΝ
Α

Mint

Heraclea Lucaniae, Lucania, modern-day Policoro, Italy

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ND (350 BC - 340 BC) 

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