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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Themes & Provenance| ▸ |Mythology||View Options:   | | | Many ancient coins depict the gods and goddesses of the Greeks, Romans and other ancient cultures. Collecting as many different gods and goddesses as possible is a fun, educational and affordable collecting theme. Every ancient gods and goddesses has their mythical function, biography, lineage and other facts and fictions that make them interesting. Here we will present as many different gods and goddesses as we can and provide some of the stories about them that fascinate us. We hope they fascinate you too. |
Hercules, assigned the labor of slaying the Hydra, quickly learned that when he cut off one of its heads two grew back. His nephew Iolaus aided him by quickly cauterizing the open stumps with a firebrand, preventing the heads from regrowing. Hera, who had created the Hydra to kill him, sent a large crab to distract him during the fight. But Hercules crushed the crab under his mighty foot and killed the Hydra.GB56643. Bronze AE 18, Jurukova Hadrianopolis 709 (O298/R670), Moushmov 2479, Mionnet Suppl. II 604, SNG Cop -, BMC Thrace -, SNG Fitzwilliam -, SNG Hunterian -, F, weight 2.251 g, maximum diameter 17.8 mm, die axis 180o, Hadrianopolis (Edirne, Turkey) mint, c. 238 - 244 A.D.; obverse TON KTICTHN, bearded head of Herakles right; reverse AΔPIANOΠOΛEITΩN, Herakles raising club against the Lernaean Hydra, which has wrapped itself around his leg, tree to left, bow and quiver upright behind him; very rare; SOLD
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