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Diadumenian from Nikopolis Coin Type: Bronze AE26 of Diadumenian from Deultum in Thrace.
Mint and Date: Deultum, 217-218 CE
Size and Weight: 26mm, 12.7g
Obverse: Draped, bare-headed bust right.
(M OPEL) ANT DIADVMENIANO
Reverse: Hygeia standing right feeding snake, facing Asklepios standing left with snake wound around staff.
COL FL P(AC D)EVL
Exergue: T
Ref: Moushmov 3562
Provenance: New Empire Antiquities, eBay, January 2005
Note: Same reverse die as this coin of Macrinus.
BW Ref: 003 026 033
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