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A bronze coin of Sardes in Lydia showing Herakles and a volute krater Coin Type: Bronze AE16 of Sardes in Lydia
Mint and Date: Sardes, 2nd - 1st century BCE.
Size and Weight: 16mm, 4.37g
Obverse: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion-skin headdress, within a dotted circle.
Reverse: Volute krater, with ΣAPΔI to right and ANΩN to left, and monogram to lower right; all within a dotted circle.
Provenance: frascatius (eBay), August 2010
Ref: GCV 4738; SNG Copenhagen —.
BW Ref: 002 051 163
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