Moesia inferior, Nikopolis ad Istrum, Antoninus Pius AMNG 1225
Antoninus Pius AD 138-161
AE 20, 5.85g
struck under the governor Zenon
obv. AVT AI ADRIA - ANTWNEINOC
bare head r.
rev. HGE ZHNWNOC - NEIKOPOL (odd K)
Apollo Sauroktonos stg. l., leaning with l. hand on tree on which lizard is 
climbing up, r. hand at hip.
AMNG 1225; Varbanov 1676
Rare, about VF, black patina, some roughness

This is the earliest and most elegant depiction of the Praxiteles statue which is described by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History 34.69-70 


Contributed by Hans-Joachim Hoeft, December, 2006.