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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Nikopolis| > BB63330
Diadumenian, mid May - 8 June 218 A.D., Nikopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior
|Nikopolis|, |Diadumenian,| |mid| |May| |-| |8| |June| |218| |A.D.,| |Nikopolis| |ad| |Istrum,| |Moesia| |Inferior|, Hygieia (Salus to the Romans) was the goddess of health. She was the daughter of Aesculapius, the god of medicine and healing, and Epione, the goddess of soothing of pain. Her father Asclepius learned the secrets of keeping death at bay after observing one snake bringing another snake healing herbs. Woman seeking fertility, the sick, and the injured slept in his temples in chambers where non-poisonous snakes were left to crawl on the floor and provide healing.
BB63330. Bronze AE 26, AMNG I/I 1854 (same reverse die), Varbanov I 3766 (R3), H-H-J Nikopolis 8.25.21.6 var. (legends, R6), SNG Cop, F, Nicopolis ad Istrum (Nikyup, Bulgaria) mint, weight 10.79g, maximum diameter 26.0mm, die axis 0o, consular legate Statius Longus, 217 - 8 Jun 218; obverse K M OΠEΛ ANTΩN ΔIAΔOYMENIANOC, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse YΠ CTATIOY ΛONΓINOY NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠPOC IC,TP-Ω (end across field), Hygieia standing right, feeding snake in right from patera in left; rare; SOLD











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