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| Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 54 | Auction date: 14 June 2000 |
| Lot number: 1076 | |
| Lot description: MOESIA INFERIOR, Callatis. Severus Alexander. 222-235 AD. Æ 26mm (5 Assaria) (13.03 gm). Laureate draped bust (beardless) right / Herakles right, with lion skin over his shoulder, wrestling the Erymanthian boar above him; E in field. SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Pick I pg. 118, 331; Mionnet Supp. II, pg. 60, 39. VF, glossy green patina with light cleaning marks. ($250) Removing the plague of the Erymanthian boar from Arcadia was the fourth of the twelve labors of Herakles, the subject of this rare reverse type. |  |
