Farnese Hercules

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1033. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Pentassarion (11.56 g, 7h). Aurelius Gallus, proconsularis. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Farnese Hercules: Hercules standing right, leaning on club draped with lion skin and set on rock outcropping. AMNG I -; Varbanov 2067. Good VF, black-green patina.

From the James E. Cain Collection.