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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Marcianopolis| > RP16988
Macrinus and Diadumenian, 11 April 217 - 8 June 218 A.D., Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior
|Marcianopolis|, |Macrinus| |and| |Diadumenian,| |11| |April| |217| |-| |8| |June| |218| |A.D.,| |Marcianopolis,| |Moesia| |Inferior|, The Greeks and Romans did not view snakes as evil creatures but rather as symbols and tools for healing and fertility. Asclepius, the son of Apollo and Koronis, 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.
RP16988. Bronze pentassarion, Varbanov I p. 144, 1214; SNG Cop 226, aVF, brown patina, flan crack, Markianopolis (Devnya, Bulgaria) mint, weight 10.790g, maximum diameter 26.5mm, die axis 180o, consular legate Pontianus, 217 - 218 A.D.; obverse AY K OΠΠEΛ CEYH MAKPKEINOC K M OΠΠEΛ ANTΩNEINOC, laureate head of Macrinus right facing bare-head of Diadumenian left; reverse YΠ ΠONTIANOY MAPKIANOΠOΛEITΩN, snake in four coils with head erect, E (mark of value) left; ex Wallace Widtman Collection; SOLD










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