Lucania, Herakleia AR Stater. Circa 330-280 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with Skylla hurling a stone; [|-HRAKLHIWN] above, small K behind / Herakles standing facing, holding club, bow, and arrow, lion's skin draped over arm; AQA to left of club, |-HRAKLHIWN to right; aryballos above. HN Italy 1384; van Keuren 84f; Work 66 (this coin). 7.92g, 20mm, 2h.
Near Extremely Fine; pleasant old cabinet tone.
This coin published in E. Work, The Earlier Staters of Heraclea Lucaniae (ANSNNM 91, 1940);
Ex Fritz Rudolf Künker 262, 13 March 2015, lot 7032;
Ex Ars Classica XII, 18 October 1926, lot 369.