TC: Antoninianus w/Hercules & the Nemean Lion MAXIMIANUS I, FIRST REIGN. . 286-305 AD.. Silvered Antoninianus, 24mm. (3.67 gm). . R: Hercules strangling the Nemean lion; Victory flying above and crowning Hercules.. cf. RIC. 460, Lugdunum mint.. This may have been struck as an allusion to a pending campaign against the British usurper Carausius (A.D. 288). Scarce; much original silvering and virtually Mint State..