Moesia inferior, Nikopolis ad Istrum, 14. Septimius Severus, HrHJ (2018) 8.14.14.01 (plate coin)

Septimius Severus AD 193-211
AE 27, 11.73g, 26.54mm, 225°
struck under governor Pollenius Auspex
obv. AV KAI CEP - CEVHPOC PER
laureate head right
rev. VPA POL AVCPIKOC NIKOPOLI PROC IC
Herakles, nude, stg. r., holding in l. hand lion's skin & bow, resting with r. hand on his club
ref. a) AMNG I/1, 1257 (1 ex., Sofia)
b) Varbanov (engl.) 2784
c) Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov (2018) No. 8.14.14.1 (plate coin)
Rare, VF
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This is the type of the Hercules Defensor reverse in Rome and, apart from the bow, the Hercules of the Di Auspices coins, very probably representing those statues at Leptis Magna. It even may have appealed to Pollenius Auspex in that connection. (Pat Lawrence)

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