Hercules’ First Labor – The Nemean Lion

361, Lot: 772. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (19mm, 4.30 g, 8h). Laureate head right / Hercules left, wrestling the Nemean lion. H&J, Marcianopolis 6.14.14.1; cf. Varbanov 732. VF, green-brown patina, minor roughness.

From the R.H. Collection.