De Kertch à Winterthur : une monnaie d’un type ‘inédit’ d’Héraclée du Pont et son usage en contexte funéraire

A coin without imperial portrait issued by Heraclea Pontica (Bithynia) in the middle of the 3rd century AD was found in funerary context in Kerch (Crimea). Its whereabouts are uncertain, but a cast of it exists in the collection of the Münzkabinett Winterthur. The obverse shows a portrait of Heracles as civic founder and the reverse displays an impressing scene showing Zeus slaying the Giants. Only two specimens of this coin type have ever been recorded and both were found in Kerch in a funerary context, which raises the question of the rituals involved.