13. Drachma coin, Herakles type, Callatis, ca. 200 B.C., silver, collectible

Obverse: Hercules head wearing lion's hair, facing right Reverse: KALLATIA, next to a wheat ear and a club on top and a quiver with an arch at the bottom - The second Pontic city which minted a coin was Kallatis. About the foundation at the end of the 6th Century B.C. of Kallatis (today Mangalia, Romania), a colony of Dorian origin, there is information from Pseudo-Scymnos, which shows that it was founded by Greeks coming from Pontic Heraclea (today Eregli, in Turkey). - The first issues of the Kallatis colony are silver Drachmas, minted according to the aeginetic weight system (from Aegina) also used in cities like Heraclea Pontica, Bysantion and Sinope - On the obverse is a beardless Herakles, the mythical ancestor of the Greeks of Kallatis, with the fur of the Nemean lion on his head, and on the reverse, next to the wheat ear, are the weapons of the Greek hero, the club, the bow and the quiver of arrows poisoned with the blood of the Hydra of Lerna

Dimensions

custom d=19 mm

Description

silver

PROVENANCE

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