CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 325-280 BC. AR Diobol (13mm, 1.36 g, 5h). Helmeted head of Athena right, helmet decorated with Skylla throwing a stone / Herakles kneeling right, strangling the Nemean lion; grasshopper to upper right. Vlasto 1327; HN Italy 976. Lovely deep iridescent tone. Near EF.
From the Mercury Group Collection. Ex Elsen 72 (14 December 2002), lot 76.