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EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33mm, 20.72 g, 12h). Labors of Herakles series. Dated RY 10 (AD 146/7). Laureate head right / The Labor of the Augean Stables – Herakles standing right, lion’s skin over left shoulder, attempting with both hands to turn rock outcropping from which water flows through a human-headed protome into a basin below; by his left knee, a muck rake set on edge of the basin; L ΔЄKATO V (date) around. Köln 1540; Dattari (Savio) 8497 = RPC IV.4 995.22 = Ramage 129 = Figari & Mosconi 619 (this coin); K&G 35.343; Emmett 1539.10 (R3). Brown patina with spots of verdigris. VF.
Ex James E. Cain Collection (Triton XI, 8 January 2008), lot 535; David Simpson Collection (Triton V, 16 January 2002), lot 1784; Spink Numismatic Circular XCIII.3 (April 1983), no. 1794; Giovanni Dattari Collection.
Because he had been assisted in completing some of his earlier tasks, Herakles was compelled to undergo two more labors. The first of these was to steal the Apples of the Hesperides, nymphs who lived in a grove at the far western edge of the world. Herakles tricked the Titan Atlas, whose task it was to hold up the heavens, to retrieve the apples in return for holding up the heavens while he did so. Having accomplished the task, Atlas was reticent to give up his freedom, and told Herakles that he would take back the apples to Mycenae. Once again, Herakles tricked the Titan, requesting that Atlas hold the heavens, while Herakles adjusted his cloak to be more comfortable.
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