AE Janus/Heracles strangling lion

What about this one?
An Id. please
Weight: 4,3g;
Diameter: 21,1mm
Giulio De Florio

 

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..janus obverse....idk...the reverse kinda lQQks like Hercules chokin' out the lion..or could be doin' the what too see...maybe the cha cha cha...haha...welcome to CT ancients..

 

Interesting— don’t recognize it at all.

 

Someone suggested on Twitter that it could be an ancient imitation. How thick is it?

 

Per Mark Fox at Forvm:

"An imitation, yes, but a rather special one in my opinion. For a match, see Series 26, Nos. 394–395, in Clive Stannard's "The Local Coinages of Central Italy in the Late Roman Republic, Provisional Catalogue, October 2007":

https://www.academia.edu/33049903/T...ATE_ROMAN_REPUBLIC_Provisional_Catalogue_2007

What is doubly special about the present example is the partially visible lettering, "L [...] D", which the other coins lack due to probable striking issues. The legend suggests the reverse design may have been at least partially inspired by a Paestum reverse. It is reason alone to bring the new coin to Stannard's attention. Strangely, the Janus/Hercules strangling lion type appears to be absent in Stannard's later paper, "The Labors of Hercules on Central Italian Coins and Tesserae of the First century BC," published in Richard Witschonke's Festschrift (2015)."