Hercules and Snakes
Hercules and Snakes

Bronze 19mm of Caracalla, Serdica in Thrace, undated, 198-217 A.D.
 
AVT K M AV CEV ANTΩNINOC; Laureate head of Caracalla r.
CEPΔΩN; Infant Hercules kneeling r. on l. knee, strangling a serpent with each hand.
 
Varbanov 2097; Hristova / Jelov, Serdica, p.87
 
Picture credit: Gemini, LLC (Auction 6), 10.1.2010, lot 633

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