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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (22.5mm, 7.66 g, 12h). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing necklace and stephane decorated with palmettes / Herakles Epitrapezios: Young Herakles, nude, holding cup, reclining left on lion skin draped over rock; quiver, bow, and club above, ME to left, [letter] and boukranion below. Attianese 139; HN Italy 2163; SNG Lloyd 615 (same dies). Light deposits, scratches, die wear on obverse. VF.
The type of Herakles Epitrapezios (lit. "Herakles at the table") shows the hero reclining in the midst of his labors, enjoying a relaxing cup of wine. Phyllis Lehmann, in Statues on coins of Southern Italy and Sicily in the classical period (New York: H. Bittner & Co., 1946), makes a connection between the coin type and a series of later statues in the manner of Lysippos, linking both to a common source, probably an earlier statue at the temple of Hera Lakinia at Kroton, one of the most prominent sanctuaries in Italy.
The type of Herakles Epitrapezios (lit. "Herakles at the table") shows the hero reclining in the midst of his labors, enjoying a relaxing cup of wine. Phyllis Lehmann, in Statues on coins of Southern Italy and Sicily in the classical period (New York: H. Bittner & Co., 1946), makes a connection between the coin type and a series of later statues in the manner of Lysippos, linking both to a common source, probably an earlier statue at the temple of Hera Lakinia at Kroton, one of the most prominent sanctuaries in Italy.