BRUTTIUM. Croton. Ca. 400-325 BC. AR stater (?mm, 7.57 gm, 2h). NGC XF 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style. KPOTΩNIA-TAΣ, laureate head of Apollo right / Infant Heracles seated facing on cushion, strangling the two serpents of Hera. SNG ANS 386. HN Italy 2157. According to Rutter in Historia Numorum Italy, "the choice of the type of the infant Heracles strangling snakes - symbolic of the triumph of the Greeks over barbarians - is paralleled on the ΣYN coinage of Asia Minor. These coins are usually connected with the battle of Cnidus in 394 (cf. Kraay, ACGC, p.257), but a date of 405/4 is preferred by R. Ashton, Essays ... Carson-Jenkins, p.9, following S. Karwiese, 'Lysander as Herakliskos Drakonopnigon', NC 1980, pp. 1-27."

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