Caracalla AE30 of Sardes, Lydia. AD 198-217. Magistrate An. Rufus. 12.15 g.

AYT K M AYR CE ANTWNEINOC, laureate head right.
EPI AN ROYFOY ARX A TO G around, CARDIANWN B NEWKORWN
below, Herakles, naked, standing left, looking right, 
holding kantharos in right hand, club against his left 
shoulder, bow and quiver at his feet left, looking at 
Dionysos standing left, holding kantharos and thyrsos, 
panther at foot left.

BMC 167; Imhoof LS 18; SNG Tuebingen 3821; Leypold I, 1228.		

With permission of Numismatik Naumann, July 2016.