Watch List notes:

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 387-326 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 10mm, 2.55 g). Head of Queen Omphale left, wearing Herakles' lion skin headdress and ear pendant, club over shoulder; beneath, seal. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 107. SNG Copenhagen 1029. Nearly extremely fine.


Omphale, a mythical queen of Lydia, received Herakles to do her bidding for a year in punishment for his murder of Iphytus. He even had to help her with her spinning, and she, as we see here, wore his lion's skin and wielded his club.