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EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (35mm, 27.98 g, 12h). Labors of Herakles series. Dated RY 10 (AD 146/7). VF.Triton XXIX The Beniak Collection of Alexandrian Coinage, Bronze, Coin-in-Hand Video Sold For $ 1 500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (35mm, 27.98 g, 12h). Labors of Herakles series. Dated RY 10 (AD 146/7). [AYT K] T AIΛ A∆P ANTωNINOC CЄB ЄVC, laureate head right / Herakles and the Apples of the Hesperides – Herakles standing right, lion’s skin and club over his left shoulder, holding club with his left hand and reaching with his right hand for the Apples of the Hesperides hanging from branch of tree to right; the serpent Ladon coiled around the tree’s trunk, arrow pierced through its neck; L ΔЄKATOV (date) around. Köln 1545; Dattari (Savio) 2604; K&G 35.354; RPC IV.4 980.30 = Ramage 130 (this coin); Emmett 1554.10. Green and red surfaces, slight porosity, smoothed and details strengthened. VF. |
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