Type 41: Eros or Erotes with Heracles Seated

An attractive type from Heracleia Pontica in Bithynia.

* Heracleia Pontica in Bithynia, an attractive coin with bust of Heracles and reverse type of Heracles seated on a rock, with two playful Erotes.
 

 

Æ 35, 6 h, 21.82 g. Obv. TON KTICTAN. Bust of Heracles l., wearing a diadem and his lionskin, and with his club over his shoulder. Rev. HPAKΛHAC MATPOC AΠOIKΩN ΠOYIΩN (sic). Heracles seated l. on a rock, his r. hand outstretched, in front of him a tree in which an Eros r. as bowman is perched and at the base of which another Eros r. is attempting to lift Heracles’s club (Photos by courtesy of Roma Numismatics).

 

CATALOGUE

Heracleia Pontica / Heracles
Reference: RPC VII, 2, 2093
Rarity: RRR