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Thracia, Pautalia, Caracalla, Ruzicka 616 var.
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Caracalla AD 197-217
AE 29, 14.52g
struck c. 202-205 (due to the portrait)
obv. AY KM AYR CEY - ANTWNINOC
Youthfull beardless bust, laureate, drapery on l. shoulder, r.
(reminds of Elagabal)
rev. OYLPIAC P / AYTALIA / C in three lines
Asklepios, bearded, laureate(?), head r., nude to hip, holding stuff with snake in l.
arm, sitting l. between wings of a snake with beard and fishtail, flying in coils r.; his raised r. hand hold the wings.
Ruzicka 616 var (only rev.; obv. with different legend); Mionnet cf. 1084; Moushmov 4235
very rare; good VF
added to www.wildwinds.com
The rev. depiction is unique in numismatics. There are obviously no relations to the snake cults of Thracia. Most probably there are connections to the false prophet Alexander of Abonuteichos (Lukian). There may be a votive tableau in the Asklepieion of Pautalia which includes this depiction. (Ruzicka)
For more information look at the thread 'Coins of mythological interest'
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