Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar

350, Lot: 336. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PONTUS, Heracleopolis (as Sebastopolis). Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (27mm, 13.87 g, 5h). Dated CY 208 (AD 205/6). AY KAI Λ CЄ-ΠTI CЄOYH, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CЄBACTOΠ (HP)AK-ΛЄOΠ[OΛIC ЄT], the Fourth Labor of Hercules: Hercules right, wrestling the Erymanthian boar; HC (date) upward to right. RG 6B var. (bust type). Near VF, brown surfaces. Extremely rare, and apparently unpublished with this bust type.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection.