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  [Image]                              Item Sold At Auction #12
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                Web Product ID: 2639
                Estimate: $1,000.00
                Final Sale Price: $698.50
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                Denomination: Sixth-Stater or Hekte
                Grade: VF
                Reference: Fischer-Bossert G14 (V11/R14); Vlasto 27; SNG ANS 1034




  Calabria, Tarentum. Circa 275-272 BC. AV Sixth-Stater or Hekte (1.35 gm). Laureate
  head of Apollo left / Herakles, club raised overhead about to strike, fighting the
  Nemean lion; bow and quiver to left. Fischer-Bossert G14 (V11/R14); Vlasto 27; SNG
  ANS 1034. VF. Rare. Estimate $1000.



  Apollo was worshipped as the patron of colonists at Tarentum and he was also the
  patron of the revered Pythagorean religious order at Tarentum which existed until the
  late fourth century. The reverse motif of Herakles fighting the Nemean lion was also
  used on contemporary silver diobols of Tarentum and its colony Herakleia, though the
  silver issues usually chose the "tondo" scene of a crouched Herakles wrestling the
  Nemean lion with a stranglehold (a design also used on the Syracusan gold 100 litrae
  issue of Dionysios I).