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Commodus, March or April 177 - 31 December 192 A.D.
Would make a nice gift for a Medical professional! 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.RB86660. Orichalcum dupondius, RIC III 390 (S); Cohen III 692; Hunter II 108; BMCRE IV p. 788, §; cf. SRCV II 5846 (IMP VII IMP IIII COS III), VF, nice portrait, well centered on a tight flan, porous, Rome mint, weight 8.883g, maximum diameter 23.8mm, die axis 180o, 183 A.D., second issue; obverse M COMMODVS ANTONINVS AVG, radiate head right; reverse SALVS AVG TR P VIII IMP VI COS IIII P P, Salus (goddess of health) standing facing, head left, with right hand feeding snake rising from altar on left, long scepter in left hand, S - C (senatus consulto) flanking low across field; from the Jyrki Muona Collection; SOLD
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