Description: Bruttium, Rhegion, AE Hemiobol (or Pentonkion), ca. 425 - 415 BC. Facing lion’s head / PH; olive sprig.

Diameter: AE17 mm

Weight: 5,02 g

Grade: aVF/aVF

Attribution: SNG ANS 680; SNG Cop. 1939; SNG Morcom 452

Commentary: dark brown patina, some roughness

History: Bruttium is today the modern region of Calabria - a name which in antiquity applied not to the toe but to the heel of the Italian peninsula.

Article Number: 048-01-06-44408