Herakleia's silver nomoi of this period were struck under pressure from two directions simultaneously: the city had recently allied with Tarentum against Rome, and Pyrrhus of Epirus was about to land in Italy — an invasion that would reshape the entire southern peninsula. The magistrate name Aristodamos appears on a small cluster of dies, suggesting a brief but concentrated minting episode rather than a sustained production run.
The SNG ANS gap for this reference is telling. Genuinely scarce in major collections.
Herakleia's silver nomoi of this period were struck under pressure from two directions simultaneously: the city had recently allied with Tarentum against Rome, and Pyrrhus of Epirus was about to land in Italy — an invasion that would reshape the entire southern peninsula. The magistrate name Aristodamos appears on a small cluster of dies, suggesting a brief but concentrated minting episode rather than a sustained production run.
The SNG ANS gap for this reference is telling. Genuinely scarce in major collections.