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145, Lot: 288. Estimate $150.
Sold for $131. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Semis (18mm, 3.28 g). Rome mint. Laureate head right / Nude statue of Hercules, draped in lion skin and holding club and apple. RIC II 689. Near VF, green patina, a little smoothed. Rare.



This statue has been identified as being part of the Ara Maxima Herculis Invicti, an altar dedicated to Hercules near the Forum Boarium in Rome. See Hill, Monuments p. 86 for further information.