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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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.
Van Keuren, 136; Rutter, HN Italy, 1433, HGC 1, 1007.
Ex Salton Family Collection, from 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.

 

 

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