Hercules and Cerberus

Triton XVI, Lot: 699. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Saitta. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (24mm, 6.42 g, 6h). • AVT • K • M ΓOPΔIANOC, laureate and cuirassed bust left, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with emperor, being crowned by Nike, / ЄΠ • ATTAΛIA NOV • CAITTHN ΩN, Hercules advancing left, right stone on boulder, preparing to hurl stone at Cerberus to left; bow, quiver, and club behind Hercules to right. RPC VII.1 220 (A2/R1); Voegtli type 10, pl. 6, m (same dies). EF, attractive green patina, very minor pitting. Only two cited in RPC (in the Bibliothèque Nationale and ANS). Far superior to the Paris specimen plated in RPC and Voegtli.

Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection.