Hercules Wrestling Antaeus

CNG 93, Lot: 927. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Balbinus. AD 238. Æ (37mm, 26.78 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Hercules wrestling with Antaeus; in exergue, club right. Voegtli, p. 67; Stoll –; SNG Levante –; SNG France 1629 (same dies). Near VF, dark-green patina.

From Group CEM. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 416 (October 1979), no. 33.