BITHYNIA, Heraclaea Pontica. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (31mm, 18.23 g, 6h). AVT • K • Λ • CЄΠ • CЄVHPOC Π, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / HPAKΛHAC ЄN ΠONTΩ, Herakles advancing right, carrying the Erymanthean boar on far shoulder over which is draped his lion’s skin. RG 107bis = Voegtli type 3, pl. 3, a; SNG von Aulock –; Mionnet Supp. V 300. Dark green patina that is slightly chipped in a few areas around the edge, slight porosity. Good VF. Fine style mythological scene. Very rare.
Ex Triton XVI (8 January 2013), lot 693; Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection.
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