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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 AE18 of Pergamon in Mysia, c. 133-16 BCE.
Size and Weight: 17mm x 18mm, 8.15g.
Obverse: Laureate head of Asklepios right.
Reverse: (A)ΣKLHΠIO(Y) (&Sigma);ΩTHPOΣ
Asklepian snake coiled around Omphalos, owl standing on the snake's back.
Provenance: agathocacological (eBay), October 2012
Ref: BMC Mysia p. 129, 160.
BW Ref: 006 054 169
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