Description: Korkyra, 229 - 148 BC. Damostratos, magistrate. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / ∆AMOCTPATOC, prow of a galley right

Diameter: AE22 mm

Weight: 7,42 g

Grade: gF/F

Attribution: SNG Cop 230; HGC 6, 86

Commentary: rare; green patina, well centered

History: The name of the polis (and hence the island) was already present in Mycenaean Greek in a word "ko-ro-ku-ra-i-jo" ("man from Korkyra") written in Linear B ca 1300 BC.

Article Number: 026-10-02-41652