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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3126672, member: 57495"]I'm not a specialist in any area, but I sometimes fancifully reckon I might give a Twelve Labours of Hercules set a go. During one of those moments, I bought this absolute dog of a provincial showing Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides (11th Labour). The unsettling thought here is that if I want to seriously try complete that set on my budget, it's <b>very</b> likely that I'll have to sink to even lower depths... </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]796869[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>GORDIAN III</b></p><p>AE34. 20.82g, 34.3mm. CILICIA, Tarsus, circa AD 238-244. SNG France 1667 var. (rev legend). O: AVT KAI M ANTΩNIOC ΓOPΔIANOC CЄB, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right; Π – Π in exergue. R: TAPCOV MHTPOΠOΛЄΩ / A M - K Γ B, Hercules standing facing, head left, holding club and apples of the Hesperides; tree to left, from which hangs the carcass of the monstrous serpent Ladon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3126672, member: 57495"]I'm not a specialist in any area, but I sometimes fancifully reckon I might give a Twelve Labours of Hercules set a go. During one of those moments, I bought this absolute dog of a provincial showing Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides (11th Labour). The unsettling thought here is that if I want to seriously try complete that set on my budget, it's [B]very[/B] likely that I'll have to sink to even lower depths... [ATTACH=full]796869[/ATTACH] [B]GORDIAN III[/B] AE34. 20.82g, 34.3mm. CILICIA, Tarsus, circa AD 238-244. SNG France 1667 var. (rev legend). O: AVT KAI M ANTΩNIOC ΓOPΔIANOC CЄB, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right; Π – Π in exergue. R: TAPCOV MHTPOΠOΛЄΩ / A M - K Γ B, Hercules standing facing, head left, holding club and apples of the Hesperides; tree to left, from which hangs the carcass of the monstrous serpent Ladon.[/QUOTE]
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