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| Issuer | Herakleia (Lucania) |
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| Year | 280 BC - 150 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | A single upright grain ear occupies the center of the field, depicted with careful naturalistic detail showing the individual grains along the stalk and a small terminal knob at the base. The Greek ethnic legend ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΩ is inscribed vertically to the right of the grain ear, identifying the issuing city of Herakleia. The design is set on a plain field within an irregular flan, consistent with the hammered bronze coinage of this Lucanian Greek colony. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Herakleia was a joint Tarentine-Thurian foundation of 433/2 BC, planted on the site of the earlier Siris and governed for much of its life under the shadow of Taras. The city's political allegiances shifted repeatedly — Pyrrhic ally, then Roman federate after 272 BC — and bronze coinage of this period reflects a municipal economy operating under increasingly constrained autonomy. By the mid-second century the city was effectively absorbed into the Roman administrative orbit, and civic bronze issues ceased.