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A bronze coin of Pergamon showing Asklepios and a serpent coiled around a staff Coin Type: Bronze AE17 of Pergamon in Mysia, c. 133-16 BCE.
Size and Weight: 16mm x 17mm, 3.73g
Obverse: Laureate head of Asklepios right.
Reverse: AΣKLHΠIOY ΣΩTHPOΣ
Snake coiled around a staff or augur-like key, head right.
Provenance: numismatiklanz (eBay), August 2009
Ref: GCV 3968 var; SNG France 1828ff; SNG von Aulock 1373.
BW Ref: 003 042 144
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