Hercules’ Second Labor – The Lernaean Hydra
702. PHRYGIA, Amorium. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (37mm, 21.01 g, 6h). Struck AD 215-217. AVT • K • M • AVP • CЄOV (HP) ANTΩNINOC AV, laureate and cuirassed bust right / AMOPIANΩN, Hercules standing left with right foot on rock outcropping, holding club in right hand poised to strike the Lernaean Hydra, part of which is wrapped around his right leg. Voegtli type 2 (unlisted for this city); Stoll 19 (this coin); otherwise unpublished. VF, olive and dark brown patina, hairline flan crack. Extremely rare. ($1000) Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (not in the Peus sale; includes his envelope); Giessener Münzhandlung 64 (11 October 1993), lot 563.
703. PHRYGIA, Apameia. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Medallion (39mm, 24.82 g, 6h). M. Aur(elius) Alexander II, archon. AVT • K • M • IOVΛ • ΦIΛIΠΠOC AVΓ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ЄΠI • M • AVP • AΛ ЄΞANΔPOV • B, BЄΛ • APXI • AΠA/MЄΩN • in two lines in exergue, lion advancing right on ground line; filleted thyrsus to right; above, cista mystica with conical lid. SNG von Aulock 3511; BMC 183-184 (same dies). Good VF, attractive green and brown patina. ($2000) Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (not in the Peus sale; includes his envelope); Gilbert Steinberg Collection (NAC/Spink Taisei, 16 November 1994), lot 888; Boham-Vecchi 1 (21 May 1980), lot 492.
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