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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 8086907, member: 80952&quot;]GREAT coins. </p><p>My only coin depicting one of the labors is this Tarentum with the Nemean lion. </p><p>I have certainly seen better examples, but the coin has its appeal, at least for me </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1405066[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Calabria. Tarentum circa 380-325 BC. </p><p>Diobol AR</p><p>10 mm, 0,90 g</p><p>CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 380-325 BC. AR Diobol Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with hippocamp/ Herakles crouching right, holding club and strangling the Nemean Lion to right. Vlasto 1303–5; HN Italy 911.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought I could help with a positive ID for the Antaeus coin but I am not sure at all. </p><p>In RPC there are 4 examples </p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=antaeus+tarsus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=antaeus+tarsus" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=antaeus+tarsus</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The only one that <i>might </i>be a match is still Philip I (from the RPC examples) because I see ΚΑΙ ΙΟΥ but you might be on the right track with Volusian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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