Description: Sicily, Himera as Thermai Himerensis, late 4th - early 3rd century BC. Head of Hera right, wearing stephane / Head of young Herakles right, in lion skin headdress.

Diameter: AE14 mm

Weight: 2,66 g

Grade: gF/gF

Attribution: Calciati I p. 119, 13; BMC Sicily p. 83, 3; SNG ANS 190

Commentary: grey-green patina, usual weak strike, well centered

History: In 409 BC Himera was utterly destroyed by Carthaginian forces under Hannibal Mago and the remaining inhabitants, who survuved the slaughter and scattering established themselves some times latter in the new settlement of Thermai.

Article Number: 049-10-09-41652