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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3336565, member: 57495&quot;]Nice find!</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my favorites last year was this Caracalla provincial of Trajanopolis.&nbsp; It was misattributed not once but twice.&nbsp; The dealer had the reverse type listed as showing &quot;2 erotes wrestling&quot;.&nbsp; The previous collector&#039;s cardboard holder it came in described the reverse as &quot;Herakles wrestling lion&quot;.&nbsp; The reverse in fact depicts an infant Herakles strangling two serpents that the jealous goddess Hera had sent to kill him.&nbsp; The type appears to be unpublished, with this coin possibly the second known. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]883793[/ATTACH]<b>CARACALLA</b></p><p>AE16. 2.62g, 16.4mm. THRACE, Trajanopolis, circa AD 198-217. Schönert-Geiss, Augusta Traiana –; Varbanov –; CNG 320, Lot 282. O: AVT K M AYP CE ANTΩNEINOC, laureate head right. R: TΡAIANOΠO-ΛEITΩN, Infant Herakles, kneeling right, strangling a serpent with each hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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