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<p>[QUOTE="TJC, post: 2905396, member: 45502"]In my pursuit of 3rd century coins I keep running across Gallienus coins from Antioch I just can't say no to!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>This Gallienus Ant with a "Labours of Hercules" reverse made this one made it a MUST HAVE for the collection at a price that was no brainer. I am pretty stoked!! I have wanted to add a Labours of Hercules for a while now<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse represents Hercules 11th Labour, <font size="4">Golden Apples of the Hesperides,</font></p><p>explained below. (I was going to do my own write up but Wiki has done a fairly decent job so here is an excerpt of the labour #11.) </p><p><br /></p><p>If you have a Labours of Hercules coin, please post it! </p><p><br /></p><p>"After <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules" rel="nofollow">Hercules</a> completed the first ten labours, Eurystheus gave him two more, claiming that slaying the Hydra didn't count (because <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iolaus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iolaus" rel="nofollow">Iolaus</a> helped Hercules), neither did cleaning the Augean Stables (either because he was paid for the job or because the rivers did the work). The first additional labour was to steal the apples from the garden of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperides" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperides" rel="nofollow">Hesperides</a>. Hercules first caught the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Sea" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Sea" rel="nofollow">Old Man of the Sea</a>, the shape-shifting sea god,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#cite_note-17" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#cite_note-17" rel="nofollow">[17]</a> to learn where the Garden of the Hesperides was located.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#cite_note-18" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#cite_note-18" rel="nofollow">[18]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In some variations, Hercules, either at the start or at the end of this task, meets <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antaeus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antaeus" rel="nofollow">Antaeus</a>, who was invincible as long as he touched his mother, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)" rel="nofollow">Gaia</a>, the earth. Hercules killed Antaeus by holding him aloft and crushing him in a bearhug.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#cite_note-19" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#cite_note-19" rel="nofollow">[19]</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus" rel="nofollow">Herodotus</a> claims that Hercules stopped in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt" rel="nofollow">Egypt</a>, where King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busiris_(Greek_mythology)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busiris_(Greek_mythology)" rel="nofollow">Busiris</a> decided to make him the yearly sacrifice, but Hercules burst out of his chains.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hercules finally made his way to the Garden of the Hesperides, where he encountered <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" rel="nofollow">Atlas</a> holding up the heavens on his shoulders. Hercules persuaded Atlas to get some of the golden Apples for him, by offering to hold up the heavens in his place for a little while. (Atlas could get the Apples because, in this version, he was the father or otherwise related to the Hesperides.) This would have made the labour – like the Hydra and the Augean Stables – void because Hercules had received help. When Atlas returned, he decided that he did not want to take the heavens back, and instead offered to deliver the Apples himself. But Hercules tricked him by agreeing to remain in place of Atlas on condition that Atlas relieve him temporarily while Hercules adjusted his cloak. Atlas agreed, but Hercules reneged and walked away with the Apples. According to an alternative version, Hercules slew <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladon_(mythology)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladon_(mythology)" rel="nofollow">Ladon</a>, the dragon-like guardian of the Apples, instead. Eurystheus was furious that Hercules had accomplished something that Eurystheus thought could not possibly be done."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#Eleventh_labour:_Golden_Apples_of_the_Hesperides" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#Eleventh_labour:_Golden_Apples_of_the_Hesperides" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#Eleventh_labour:_Golden_Apples_of_the_Hesperides</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]700760[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]700761[/ATTACH] </p><p>Gallienus, antoninianus, Antioch. Sole reign. AD 263-268. </p><p>O: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped bust right </p><p>Rx: VIRTVS AVG, Hercules standing slightly right, looking left, holding club and apple. Mintmark VIIC dot. RIC V-1 (S), Asian Mint 623 var; Goebl 1647a; Sear 10404.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TJC, post: 2905396, member: 45502"]In my pursuit of 3rd century coins I keep running across Gallienus coins from Antioch I just can't say no to!:) This Gallienus Ant with a "Labours of Hercules" reverse made this one made it a MUST HAVE for the collection at a price that was no brainer. I am pretty stoked!! I have wanted to add a Labours of Hercules for a while now:) The reverse represents Hercules 11th Labour, [SIZE=4]Golden Apples of the Hesperides,[/SIZE] explained below. (I was going to do my own write up but Wiki has done a fairly decent job so here is an excerpt of the labour #11.) If you have a Labours of Hercules coin, please post it! "After [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules']Hercules[/URL] completed the first ten labours, Eurystheus gave him two more, claiming that slaying the Hydra didn't count (because [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iolaus']Iolaus[/URL] helped Hercules), neither did cleaning the Augean Stables (either because he was paid for the job or because the rivers did the work). The first additional labour was to steal the apples from the garden of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperides']Hesperides[/URL]. Hercules first caught the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Sea']Old Man of the Sea[/URL], the shape-shifting sea god,[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#cite_note-17'][17][/URL] to learn where the Garden of the Hesperides was located.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#cite_note-18'][18][/URL] In some variations, Hercules, either at the start or at the end of this task, meets [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antaeus']Antaeus[/URL], who was invincible as long as he touched his mother, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)']Gaia[/URL], the earth. Hercules killed Antaeus by holding him aloft and crushing him in a bearhug.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#cite_note-19'][19][/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus']Herodotus[/URL] claims that Hercules stopped in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt']Egypt[/URL], where King [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busiris_(Greek_mythology)']Busiris[/URL] decided to make him the yearly sacrifice, but Hercules burst out of his chains. Hercules finally made his way to the Garden of the Hesperides, where he encountered [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)']Atlas[/URL] holding up the heavens on his shoulders. Hercules persuaded Atlas to get some of the golden Apples for him, by offering to hold up the heavens in his place for a little while. (Atlas could get the Apples because, in this version, he was the father or otherwise related to the Hesperides.) This would have made the labour – like the Hydra and the Augean Stables – void because Hercules had received help. When Atlas returned, he decided that he did not want to take the heavens back, and instead offered to deliver the Apples himself. But Hercules tricked him by agreeing to remain in place of Atlas on condition that Atlas relieve him temporarily while Hercules adjusted his cloak. Atlas agreed, but Hercules reneged and walked away with the Apples. According to an alternative version, Hercules slew [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladon_(mythology)']Ladon[/URL], the dragon-like guardian of the Apples, instead. Eurystheus was furious that Hercules had accomplished something that Eurystheus thought could not possibly be done." [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#Eleventh_labour:_Golden_Apples_of_the_Hesperides[/url] [ATTACH=full]700760[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]700761[/ATTACH] Gallienus, antoninianus, Antioch. Sole reign. AD 263-268. O: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped bust right Rx: VIRTVS AVG, Hercules standing slightly right, looking left, holding club and apple. Mintmark VIIC dot. RIC V-1 (S), Asian Mint 623 var; Goebl 1647a; Sear 10404.[/QUOTE]
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