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A bronze coin of Pergamon showing Asklepios and a serpent coiled around the Omphalos Coin Type: Bronze AE22 of Pergamon in Mysia, c. 133-16 BCE.
Size and Weight: 20mm x 22mm, 8.13g.
Obverse: Laureate head of Asklepios right.
Reverse: AΣKLHΠIOY ΣΩTHPOΣ
Bearded snake coiled around the Omphalos, which is draped with the agrenon.
Provenance: lugotorix_2008 (eBay), December 2010
Ref: GCV 3967; BMC Mysia p.129, 158; SNG France 1803; SNG von Aulock 1372.
BW Ref: 004 052 166
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