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Search Advanced Search Search By Coin ID     Home ANCIENT/BYZANTINE Ancient Spain (872) Byzantine (753) MEDIEVAL/EARLY WORLD Germany (30) MODERN WORLD COUNTERFEITS AND IMITATIONS   Submit New Coin(s)   Sponsors page Terms of Service Contact Us About Us FAQ Page Coin Detail Click here to see enlarged image. ID:     77000439      [UNVERIFIED] Type:     Roman Provincial Region:     THRACE City:     Perinthus Issuer:     Septimius Severus Date Ruled:     AD 193-211 Metal:     Bronze Denomination:     AE 40 Medallion Struck / Cast:     struck Date Struck:     AD 193-211 Diameter:     40 mm Weight:     40.59 g Die Axis:     1 h Obverse Legend:     AV • K • Λ • CEΠTI • CEVHPOC • [ΠE] Obverse Description:     Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind Reverse Legend:     ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕΙΑ Π−ΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ ΝΕ/ΩΚΟΡΩΝ Reverse Description:     Hercules, wearing lion skin, standing right, holding Erymanthian Boar on his left shoulder with both hands, displaying it to Eurystheus, who stands left in a crater at Hercules feet, arms raised in terror. Primary Reference:     Voegtli type 3b Reference2:     SchÖnert-Geiss, Perinthos 521.2 = Stoll, Herakles, 28 (this coin) Reference3:     Varbanov 3852 Photograph Credit:     Classical Numismatic Group Source:     http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=114862 Grade:     EF, attractive dark brown patina with tan highlights Notes:     Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 439 Extremely rare, one of five known. Ex AufhÄuser (7 October 1986), lot 234a and cover coin.Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot.In the Fourth Labor, Hercules was charged with capturing the Erymanthian Boar. The beast resided in a grove sacred to Artemis near Mount Erymanthus in Arcadia, and would descend from the wilderness to wreck havoc on the surrounding farms and groves.During his hunt for the Boar, Hercules visited his friend, the centaur Pholus, who lived in a cave on the mountain. The centaur provided the hungry and thirsty hero with food, but shied from offering him the wine he had because it did not belong to him, and was for the use of all the centaurs. Hercules nevertheless opened the jar, and, smelling the wine’s aroma, the other centaurs became excited and intoxicated. A fight soon ensued, and Hercules slew a number of centaurs with arrows poisoned by the blood of the Hydra. During the melee, another of Heracles’ friends, the kindly centaur Chiron, was accidentally wounded. Although Chiron did not die, as he was immortal, he did experience great pain. Hercules attempted to medicate the wound, but his ministrations were of little avail. In return for his kindness, however, Chiron offered advice to the hero as to how he could capture the Boar.Now back on task after his disastrous dawdling, Hercules easily trapped the Boar by pursuing it through the mountain snows until the creature collapsed from exhaustion. Netting the animal, he carried it back to Tiryns and presented it to Eurystheus. Frightened by the Boar, Eurystheus hid himself in a large bronze crater, as is depicted here. This scene is well known from an Attic Black-Figure vase of the late sixth century BC in the David M. Robinson Collection in the University of Mississippi (D.M. Robinson, "Unpublished Greek Vases in the Robinson Collection," AJA 60.1 [January 1956], 12, and pl. 8).

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