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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3805332, member: 75937&quot;]The Λεον Νεμειος (Nemean Lion) was an enormous lion who was the offspring of Orthros, a two-headed, serpent-tailed dog, and Chimera, a fire-breathing creature with the body and head of a lion, a goat&#039;s head rising from its back, the udders of a goat, and a serpent for a tail (Hesiod <i>Theogony</i> 327). With parents like that, the Nemean lion was badder than old King Kong and meaner than a junkyard dog! Its hide was impervious to all human weapons and it ravished the city of Nemea.</p><p><br /></p><p>King Eurystheus of Argolis commanded Herakles to destroy the beast as the first of his twelve labors. Herakles cornered the lion in its cave and seized it by the neck and wrestled it to death. He then skinned its hide to make a lion-skin cape, one of his most distinctive attributes. Hera afterwards placed the lion among the stars as the constellation Leo.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I have coins featuring Herakles with his lion-skin cape (and don&#039;t we all?), I didn&#039;t have one featuring Herakles actually wrestling with the lion -- until now! It&#039;s tiny -- probably a diassarion -- but detailed and has a pretty patina.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Post your Herakles coins! <i>Bonus points for the Nemean lion!</i></i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1015494[/ATTACH]</p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-217.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 16.8 mm, 4.33 g, 1 h.</p><p>Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, AD 193-211.</p><p>Obv: IOVΛIA ΔO-[MNA CEB], bare-headed and draped bust right.</p><p>Rev: [MAPKI]ANOΠOΛITΩN, Herakles standing right, wrestling the Nemean lion.</p><p>Refs: AMNG I 606; Varbanov 673; Moushmov 419; SNG Copenhagen --; SNG Budapest --.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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