Asculum Historia Numorum Italy 655, Bronze, struck at Asculum, 240–217 BC. Obverse: head of heracles wearing a lion's skin. Reverse: nike standing, attaching a taenia (head band) and a wreath to a palm. Weight about 1.5 g, diameter 12.9 mm.
| mint | Asculum | weight | 1.53g (1) |
| ruler | — | diameter | ⌀12.9 (1) |
| denomination | — | axis | 4↕ (1) |
| material | Bronze | technique | — |
| country | Greece | dataset | IRIS — Greek coinage (greekcoinage.org) |
obverse
Head of Heracles wearing a lion's skin
reverse
Nike standing, attaching a taenia (head band) and a wreath to a palm
Cite this coin
Asculum Historia Numorum Italy 655 (asculum.hn_italy.655), 240–217 BC. Corpus Apertum Nummorum Orbis Antiqui (CANOA). https://canoanumis.org/coins/asculum-historia-numorum-italy-655/ (accessed: 2026-09-12). Full citation guidance: How to cite CANOA