The Twelfth Labor of Hercules

352, Lot: 269. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Hadrianopolis. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Tetrassarion (28mm, 10.93 g, 7h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Hercules facing, head right, holding club and lion skin, and dragging Cerberus to right. Jurukova, Hadrianople 640 (V270/R614); Varbanov 4010 (same dies as illustration). Near VF, green patina. Rare.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection.