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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Hadrianopolis| > GB56643
Hadrianopolis, Thrace, c. 238 - 244 A.D.
|Hadrianopolis|, |Hadrianopolis,| |Thrace,| |c.| |238| |-| |244| |A.D.|, 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, Hadrianopolis (Edirne, Turkey) mint, weight 2.251g, maximum diameter 17.8mm, die axis 180o, 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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