You can admire this stater coin in the Archeological Museum of Naples. This silver stater coin is from the mint of Heraclia, dates in the Late Classical period, between 400 and 330 B.C., and presents Greek inscriptions. It shows the following imagines:
D/ ATHANAS; head of Athena with crested helmet, on which there is a depiction of Scylla throwing a rock with her left hand; R/ HERAKLEION; Hercules stands naked, with his lionskin on his head, fighting the lion Nemeus; in the background on the left is the god’s club and bow.
The mint of Heraclia is constantly identified by the types of Athena and Hercules, the hero of the city; the weight is that of the “nomos italiotikos" (= 7.76 grams) which, from the mid-fifth century B.C. onwards, characterised the issues of the Italiot cities. Silver coinage is recorded from the arrival of Pyrrus.
D/ ATHANAS; head of Athena with crested helmet, on which there is a depiction of Scylla throwing a rock with her left hand; R/ HERAKLEION; Hercules stands naked, with his lionskin on his head, fighting the lion Nemeus; in the background on the left is the god’s club and bow.
The mint of Heraclia is constantly identified by the types of Athena and Hercules, the hero of the city; the weight is that of the “nomos italiotikos" (= 7.76 grams) which, from the mid-fifth century B.C. onwards, characterised the issues of the Italiot cities. Silver coinage is recorded from the arrival of Pyrrus.
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