Egypt. Alexandria. Antoninus Pius, 138-161. Drachm (Bronze, 33.75 mm, 28.17 g). Labors of Herakles series. Dated RY 10 (= 146/147). ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤ[ωΝΕΙΝΟϹ] ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ Laureate head right. Rev. Herakles and the Nemean Lion; Herakles standing right, holding the Nemean lion by its neck and jaws with both hands and raising it up into the air, off of the ground, with the lion's body vertical; [L] ∆Є KATOYV (date) around. Dattari-Savio 2593. Emmett 1555. Geissen 1535. BMC 1044. RPC IV.4, 993.20 (this coin cited). Near Very Fine. Ex Kerry K. Wetterstrom Collection. Ex CNA Ltd. XIII, 12.04.1990, lot 190. The scene on the reverse of this drachm truthfully illustrates Heracles' first labor, that of hand-to-hand combat with the Nemean Lion, who could not be killed with weapons because his skin was invulnerable. Heracles succeeded in doing so because he suffocated him with the grip of his steel arms as depicted on the coin.