Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 869. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. Æ Semis (2.89 gm). IMP CAE[S] NERVA TRAIAN AVG, laureate head right / S C, nude statue of Hercules, draped in lion skin and holding club and apple. RIC II 689; BMCRE 1059; Cohen 336. Good VF, tan patina. ($750)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Auction XXXII (7 December 1994), lot 377.

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, The Monuments of Ancient Rome as Coin Types, pg. 86.