Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 761. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $7250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maximianus. First reign, AD 286-305. Æ Medallion (36.57 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 296-299. IMP C M A VAL MAX IMIANVS P F AVG, laureate half-length bust right, wearing toga picta over tunica palmata, holding eagle-tipped scepter in right hand / HERCVLI CON SERVATORI AVGG, Hercules seated facing on rock outcropping, lion skin on lap, right hand resting on thigh, left holding club set on ground; quiver and bow in right field. Cf. Gnecchi II p. 127, 2 and pl. 126, 4 (smaller module; head right, wearing lion's skin headdress); Toynbee -; Dressel -; BMCREM -; MRV -; MFA -; Froehner -; Cohen -. Good VF, dark green and brown patina with flecks of red, traces of silvering. Well centered and well struck. Apparently unique and unpublished.

Ex Michael Weller Collection (Triton VIII, 10 January 2005), lot 1078; Gorny & Mosch 125 (13 October 2003), lot 573.