Labor of Hercules Issue – The Cretan Bull

409, Lot: 403. Estimate $100. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PONTUS, Heracleopolis (as Sebastopolis). Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Tetrassarion (29mm, 14.43 g, 5h). Labor of Hercules issue. Dated CY 208 (AD 205/6). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Hercules wrestling the Cretan Bull . Amandry & Remy 17b; Voegtli type 4o. Fine, brown patina.