HERACLEA SILVER STATER – SPECIMEN WITH THUNDERBOLT SYMBOL EX SALTON-SCHLESSINGER FPL OF 1953 – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK LUCANIA COIN (Inv. 17464)

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17464. LUCANIA. HERACLEA. Ca. 281–250 BC.
Silver Stater (Nomos), 6.65 g, 21 mm.
Obv: I–HPAKΛHIΩN, head of Athena right, wearing large Corinthian helmet decorated with rampant griffin ornament, I–H in left field. Rev. Heracles standing left, holding club and sacrificing above flaming altar, thunderbolt in right field.
HGC 1, 1007, Van Keuren 136; HN Italy 1433.
Ex Salton Family Collection, Vilmar Numismatics FPL III (2022), no. 6 = Mark M. Salton–Schlessinger FPL 19, 2/17/1953, lot 24.
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5, steel gray old cabinet toning with golden iridescent highlights.