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D1248 describes this reverse as a bust of Trajan with lion-skin (so Curtis 542) but the coin is worn and the identification as Trajan seems a misidentification of Heracles, who clearly appears in the next group. Curtis, Survey, pl. XLII (obv. not illustrated) is described as ‘Herakles-Harpocrates head’. In his text he described it as ‘a controversial tetradrachm of Hadrian. This extremely rare coin has a reverse type that has long been considered as portraying the head of the deified Trajan. It seems more probable that we have here the head of Herakles-Harpocrates’. See alsο 5439 and 5501.
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