ID Help - Nicaea Hercules (or something)

This coin appears to features Hercules leaning on a club.

The obv could be just about anybody, but has a Flavian look to the head. My best guess is Geta, as the Flavians dont appear to have issued coinage in Nicaea


Diam: 16mm
Wt: 2.9g
Obv: ACEM--(??) bare head right
Rev: NIKA--, Hercules (?) leaning on club

As always, a Wildwinds search was unsuccessful.

 

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Yours is Geta as Caesar.

The reverse figure is Eros-Thanatos, I think, like that I discuss here.


Caracalla, AD 198-217.
Roman provincial AE 17.1 mm, 3.44 g, 12 h.
Thrace, Hadrianopolis, AD 198-217.
Obv: AVT K M AVP CE ANTΩNEINOC, laureate head, right.
Rev: AΔΡIANOΠOΛEITΩN, Nude Eros-Thanatos standing right, left leg crossed over right, leaning with right hand and left elbow on inverted lit torch.
Refs: Varbanov 3526; Jurukova, Hadrianople 390.2; CN 5217; Moushmov 2615; cf. SNG Cop 271.
Notes: Reverse die match to CN 5217 specimen (Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, no. 1566).

 

Thanks for the quick reply! Not at all what I was expecting

 

You're welcome. It's from Nicaea in Bithynia, like this one:

 

....they don't call him RC fer nuthin'..