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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Pisidia| > RP79916
Termessos Major, Pisidia, c. 238 - 268 A.D.
|Pisidia|, |Termessos| |Major,| |Pisidia,| |c.| |238| |-| |268| |A.D.|, Hercules' 11th labor was to steal three of Hera's immortality-giving golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides, guarded by Ladon, a never-sleeping, hundred-headed dragon. Hercules asked Atlas to steal the apples, agreeing to hold up the world so Atlas could complete the task. Atlas returned but refused to take back his burden. Hercules, pretending to enjoy the task, convinced Atlas to hold the world while he made a pad of the lion skin. Hercules then ran away and never took back the task.
RP79916. Bronze AE 31, SNG BnF 2192, SNG Cop -, SNGvA -, SNG PfPs -, SNG Righetti -, BMC Lycia -, VF, well centered, some corrosion and pitting, Termessus Major (Termessos National Park, Turkey) mint, weight 11.699g, maximum diameter 30.7mm, die axis 180o, c. 238 - 268 A.D.; obverse TEPMHCCEΩN, laureate and bearded bust of Zeus right, Θ below; reverse TΩN MEIZONΩN, Herakles standing slightly right, head left, nude, club downward in right hand, apples of Hesperides in right hand, Nemean lion skin draped over left arm, Θ upper right; rare; SOLD



  






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