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Trajan, 25 January 98 - 8 or 9 August 117 A.D.
| A gilded 2nd century B.C. slightly over-lifesize bronze statue, Hercules of the Forum Boarium, has Hercules in a similar pose. This statue is probably the one mentioned by Pliny, which originally stood in the Temple of Hercules Victor, by the Tiber. It lacks the lion skin. Perhaps a actual lion skin was once draped on it. The sculpture is now in the Musei Capitolini, Rome. Another similar sculpture, from the 2nd Century A.D., the Hercules of the Theatre of Pompey, was discovered in 1864, carefully buried under protective tiles. It was incised FCS (fulgor conditum summanium), indicating that it had been struck by lightning, and had been carefully interred on the spot. The figure lightly supports himself on his grounded vertical club, the skin of the Nemean Lion is draped over his left forearm. This sculpture is now in the round room area of Museo Pio-Clementino, in the Vatican. |  |
SH32111. Gold aureus, Woytek 72b, RIC II 37, Calicó 1053a, BMCRE III 58 var. (aegis), BnF 75 var. (no drapery), Cohen 215 var. (same), SRCV II 3095 var. (same), VF, scrape on cheek, scratches, Rome mint, weight 7.347g, maximum diameter 19.4mm, die axis 225o, Jan/Feb 100 - Oct 100 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM, laureate bust right, hint of drapery on far shoulder; reverse P M TR P COS III P P (Pontifex Maximus, Tribunitia Potestas, Consul Tertium, Pater Patre - High priest, holder of tribunitian power, consul the 3rd time, father of the country), statue of Hercules standing facing on low base, nude except for lion skin draped over shoulders and left arm, club downward in right hand, apples of Hesperides in his left hand; SOLD
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