Maximian AV Aureus. Cyzicus, AD 286-287. IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VIRTVTI HERCVLIS, Hercules standing facing, head to right, leaning on club set on rock, lion-skin draped over club; SC* in exergue. RIC VI 605 var. (mintmark); C. -; Depeyrot 6/4; Calico 4758a corr. (bust type) (same dies). 5.30g, 21mm, 12h.
Good Extremely Fine; a powerful rendering of Hercules. Extremely Rare, and the only example on CoinArchives with this mintmark.
This coin published in G. Depeyrot, L'or du Bas-Empire, Inventaire justificatif des tomes 1 et 2, 2004, p.133, 6/4.
Ex Dr. Hans Krähenbühl Collection;
Purchased from Münzen & Medaillen AG, 25 October 1963;
Ex Münzen & Medaillen AG, Auction XXV, 17 November 1962, lot 644.