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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS, AD 285-ca. 310. Antoninianus.
Obverse: IMP. C. VAL. MAXIMIANVS P. F. AVG. His radiated draped and cuirassed bust to the right.
Reverse: VIRTVS AVGG. Hercules, naked, standing right holding club set on a rock, lionskin on his left arm. C in left field.
Reference: RIC 437; Sear 3622. Grade: aU.
Comments: For more information, read the "Maximianus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Maximianus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.