Watch List notes:

Apulia, Ausculum Æ18. Circa 240 BC. Head of Herakles right wearing lion's skin headdress, club at shoulder / ΑΥCΚΛΑ, Nike standing right, attaching taenia with pendant wreath to palm frond. HN Italy 654; SNG ANS 648-50 var. (head left). 5.18g, 18mm, 5h.

Near Very Fine. Rare with bust facing right.

From a private European collection.

The reverse type clearly derives from the Roman didrachm, Crawford 22/1, dated to c.250 BC.