Classical Numismatic Group > Mail Bid Sale 67 | Auction date: 22 September 2004 |
Lot number: 1174 | |
Lot description: EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. 138-161 AD. Æ Drachm (22.06 gm). Dated RY 10 (146/7 AD). Estimate $1000 EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. 138-161 AD. Æ Drachm (22.06 gm). Dated RY 10 (146/7 AD). Labors of Hercules type. Laureate head right / The Labor of the Augean Stables: Hercules, nude but for lion skin over shoulder, standing before the Augean Stables; a mattock lays before him, with which he has diverted the river waters (depicted as streaming from a human head [not a lion's head, as the other references state] within the stables) into the stables; date around. Köln 1540; Dattari 2606; Milne 1912; Emmett 1539(10). Fair to Fine, even brown patina. The important mythological reverse is complete and clear. ($1000) From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Kerry K. Wetterstrom Collection (Classical Numismatic Auctions XIII, 4 December 1990), lot 198; John W. Garrett Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts & Leu, 16-18 May, 1984), lot 1011 (part of). | ![]() |