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Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

CNG 100, Lot: 1953. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maximianus. First reign, AD 286-305. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.66 g, 6h). Ticinum mint. Struck circa AD 286-294. MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS A-VGG, Hercules, holding club in right hand, apple in left, lion's skin over left arm, standing right in the Garden of the Hesperides; serpent-entwined apple tree to right; XXIT. RIC V 569; Venerá –; Cohen 585. EF. Very rare.


Ex James E. Cain Collection (Triton XI, 8 January 2008), lot 990.