Kappa, Alpha, Lambda: on the upper left side. Right above the club, behind the thorax of Hercules, there is the inscription KAL - perhaps the signature of the artist Kallisthenes, as he may have been called. On the right is the ethnicon for the city of Heracleia. This is a spectacular representation of Herakles' first heroic feat: defeating the Nemean lion with his bare hands. We see the moment just before Hercules breaks the lion's neck, after having successfully taken the wild animal in a headlock. Between the legs of Hercules is an owl, the attribute of Pallas Athene, observing us quite unaffected by the ongoing struggle. The lion's tail is wonderfully placed on the flan. For the period of c. 350 BC, this is a magnificent work. In my opinion it is a better interpretation of the subject than on the expensive gold coins of 100 litrae from Syracuse of around 400 BC.