Temenothyrae, Phrygia. AE43, semi-autonomous issue, AD 244-249. Magistrate Aroun Neikomachos. 40.77 g.

IERA CYNKLHTOC, draped bust of the Senate left.
AROYN NEIKOMAXOC ARXIEREYC ARX A TO B THMENOQREYCI, Herakles, naked, standing left, holding torch and club and 
with lionskin over left arm, pointing the torch at a small 
Eros (often mistaken for the Hydra) at lower left. In the 
background to left is a tall column surmounted by a statue of Athena.

BMC 12; Hunter 1-2; Kurth Herakles 206.

With permission of Numismatik Naumann Auction 80, Lot 391, Aug 2019.

Note: This reverse image does not show Herakles attacking 
the Hydra, as many sellers believe, but the known scene of 
Herakles and a small Eros, which (with a second Eros to 
right) attempted to capture Herakles by wrapping a rope 
around his legs.
The scene is known from a coin from Pautalia struck for 
Antoninus Pius.
The BMC catalogue correctly describes the reverse with "a 
small winged Eros left, pulls a taut rope apparently 
attached to the right leg of Herakles."