Bronze drachm of Antoninus Pius, Alexandria in Egypt, 146-47 A.D.
AVT K T AIΛ AΔP ANTΩNEINOC CEB EYC; Laureate head of Antoninus Pius r,
L DE KATOV (date); Hercules standing r., lion skin over shoulder, attempting with both hands to turn rock outcropping from which water flows through a human-headed protome into a basin below; leaning against Hercules’ left knee, a muck rake set on edge of basin.
Köln 1540; Voegtli type 12r; Dattari (Savio) 8497 = Ramage 129; BMC 1047; Dattari 2606; Milne 1912 = Emmett 1539.10.
Picture credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. (Triton XI), 8.1.2008, lot 535
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