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5 Units Head of Hercle
| Issuer | Peithesa |
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| Year | 301 BC - 250 BC |
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| Diameter | 15 mm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Hercle (Heracles) facing right, wearing the Nemean lion skin over the head, the scalp knotted beneath the chin in characteristic Sicilian-Punic style. The numeral V appears in the right field before the face, denoting the denomination. The portrait is rendered in a bold, somewhat provincial style typical of western Sicilian bronze coinage of the early third century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Peithesa was a minor Oscan-speaking community in Lucania whose coinage output was limited and short-lived, almost certainly dependent on a single magistrate's authority rather than any sustained civic minting program. The "var." notations against both HN Italy and Vicari suggest this piece deviates from the documented die pairings — worth recording precisely for future corpus work on this series, as Lucanian bronzes remain poorly documented compared to their silver counterparts.