VALETV Valetudinis, on a silver coin of the Acilia gens, struck about 54 BC by the moneyer Manius Acilius.
Obv. SALTIS, laureate head of the goddess Salus to right, wearing necklace and earrings. Rev. IVV ACILIVS IIIVIR VALETV, the goddess Valetudo standing to left, leaning on a column, and holding in her right hand a serpent.
This type recalls the Greek word to heal, from which the Acilia gens might have borrowed their name, more especially as it is recorded that the first Greek doctor who came to Rome obtained leave to open a shop in the cross-road Acilia. The head of Salus on the obverse is that of the goddess to whom C. |Julius| Bubulius dedicated a temple in 304 BC, and it also occurs upon coins of the Junia gens, struck by Silanus about 89-88 BC. It seems likely that the same goddess - Salus and Valetudo - is represented on both sides of this denarius.