AE 34 of Caracalla, Tarsos in Cilicia, c.214-17 A.D.
AΥT KAI M AΥΡ CEΥHΡOC ANTΩNEINOC CEB / Π / Π; Laureate head of Caracalla l.
[ANTΩNIANHC] CEYH ADP MHT / TAPCOY (in ex) / Δ / EK; Herakles, naked but for his lionskin over his l. shoulder, striding l., with his club held in his upraised r. hand, preparing to strike the many-headed Hydra before him to l.
SNG Levante 1051 = Voegtli 2q; Ziegler 694
Picture credit: Nomos (Auction 6), 8.5.2012, lot 177
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