Bronze medallion of Gordian III, Perinthus in Thrace, undated, 238-44 A.D.
AVT K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ; Laureate and cuirassed bust of Gordian r., with Medusa head on cuirass.
ΠEPINΘIΩN ΔIC NEΩKOPΩN; Hercules standing facing, head r., lion skin over l. arm, leaning r. hand on club set on ground and holding Apples of the Hesperides in extended l. hand; tree to r., with Ladon coiled around trunk.
Voegtli type 7e = Schönert-Geiss Perinthos 858.2; Stoll Herakles —; Varbanov 4157
Picture credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. (Triton XI), 8.1.2008, lot 442
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