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ROMAN EMPIRE PROVINCIAL, Thracia, Serdika, Caracalla, Hristova/Jekov 12.18.20.11 (plate coin)
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Caracalla, AD 198-217
AE 30, 16.6g, 30.27mm, 0°
obv. AYT KM AYR CEYH - ANTWNEINOC
bust, draped, laureate, r.
rev. OYLPIAC - CERDIKAC
Asklepios, half-draped, standing frontal, feeding with r. hand snake coiling
around rod set on ground left
ref. Ruzicka 245 (5 ex.); Hristova/Jekov No.12.18.20.11 (this coin!); Varbanov (engl.) 2202 (this coin!)
very rare, EF
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Serdica, today Sofia/Bulgaria. Ulpias was a venerating name of the city in honour of its founder Ulpius Trajan (Curtis Clay)
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