Lucius Verus, AE 40 mm. medallion of Prusias ad Hypium, 
Bithynia. ca. AD 164-166. 50.96 g.

AVT KAI ARM L AVR OVHROC, bare head right, slight drapery
on left shoulder.
PROVCIEWN PROC VPIW, Herakles, naked, standing left, 
grasping the neck of one of the serpents' heads of the 
Lenean hydra and wielding club; two dragons' legs on the 
hydra's body, the claws of one pincing into Herakles' leg. 
Tall narrow column surmounted by statue in right field.

RecGen 43; Mionnet II, 425; Paris 1593.

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