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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 7.91 g, 5h). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing necklace and stephane decorated with palmette and two griffin foreparts / Herakles Epitrapezios: young Herakles, nude, holding cup, reclining left on lion’s skin draped over rock; bow and club above. Attianese 139; HN Italy 2160; SNG ANS 378 (same dies). Lightly toned, hole repaired at 12 o’clock on obverse. VF.
Ex Weise Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 115, 16 September 2020), lot 22; Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 294 (16 January 2013), lot 424; G. Hirsch 167 (26 September 1990), lot 140.
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.
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