Watch List notes:

Apulia, Ausculum Æ 17mm. Circa 240 BC. Head of Herakles to left, wearing lion skin headdress, club at shoulder / Nike standing to right, attaching taenia with pendant wreath to palm frond; ΑΥC[ΚΛΑ] behind. HN Italy 654; SNG ANS 648-50; HGC 1, 542. 4.44g, 17mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine.

Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 103, 24 November 2022, lot 18.

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