Nomos

Herakleia was founded around 433 BC as a joint Tarentine and Spartan colony, and its coinage consistently reflects that Spartan cultural inheritance even into the third century. By the 270s, the city occupied an increasingly precarious position — Pyrrhus had withdrawn from Italy by 275, Rome was consolidating the south, and Herakleia would eventually become one of the earliest Italian communities to receive a formal treaty of alliance with Rome rather than outright subjugation. These nomoi represent the final phase of the city's independent silver coinage before Roman monetary dominance rendered local Greek-standard issues redundant across Magna Graecia.