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Drachm
| Issuer | Herakleia (Lucania) |
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| Year | 281 BC - 278 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | HPAKΛEIΩN APX |
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This issue falls at a pivotal moment for Herakleia: the city had just become the nominal headquarters of the Italiote League and was negotiating its position between Rome and the arriving forces of Pyrrhus of Epirus. The dating window — 281 to 278 BC — overlaps almost exactly with Pyrrhus's crossing into Italy in 280 BC, invited by Tarentum to check Roman expansion. Herakleia itself was the site of the first major engagement, where Pyrrhus defeated a Roman consular army in the summer of 280, partly through the shock effect of his war elephants.
HN Italy 1418 represents one of the later reduced-weight drachm issues, reflecting the monetary pressures that came with hosting and supplying a foreign army.