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Marcus Aurelius, 7 March 161 - 17 March 180 A.D.
Salus was the Roman goddess of health. She was Hygieia to the Greeks, who believed her to be 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.RB110110. Orichalcum sestertius, KENOM 16-00148 corr. (same dies, misdescribed as TR P XV); RIC III 843; BMCRE III 1037; Cohen III 564; Hunter III p. 323, 91; SRCV II -, Fair, Rome mint, weight 20.640g, maximum diameter 31.6mm, die axis 0o, Dec 162 - autumn 163 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES M AVREL - ANTONINVS AVG P M, laureate head right; reverse SALVS AVGVSTOR TR P XVII, Salus standing facing, head left, from patera in right hand feeding snake rising from altar at feet on left, short scepter vertical in left hand, S - C (senatus consulto) flanking low across field, COS III in exergue; from the Shawn Caza Collection, ex Anciennes Collections (Clermont Ferrand, France); SOLD
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