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A bronze coin of Pergamon showing Asklepios and a serpent coiled around the Omphalos with an owl to one side Coin Type: Bronze AE17 of Pergamon in Mysia, c. 133-16 BCE.
Size and Weight: 17mm, 7.08g.
Obverse: Laureate head of Asklepios right.
Reverse: (AΣK)LHΠI(OY) (ΣΩT)HPOΣ
Asklepian snake coiled around Omphalos, owl standing on the snake's back.
Provenance: moneta-hermes (eBay), August 2011
Ref: BMC Mysia p. 129, 160.
BW Ref: 005 053 000
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