TYPE Ancient Greece, Herakleia (Lucania), 432-380 BC, silver diobol, 1.14g
DESCRIPTION .
Obv: Head of Herakles in lion skin right
Rev: Lion walking right, legend (retrograde HE?) above
REFERENCE: SG 386v (legend below), Cop 1098
GRADING: F, some corrosion damage and surface lamination
ORDER INFO: G2236, $58
The earliest coinage of Herakleia, scarcer than the later diobols where the occupants of the two sides of this coin get together on reverse images, locked in mortal combat of the famous First Labor of Herakles.